Via MetaFilter comes the sad news that Automatic Media has fired all of its employees – employees who have reportedly gone unpaid for several months. As anyone who reads here regularly knows, Automatic Media is the parent of Feed, Suck, and Plastic. Someone pointed to today’s Hit & Run at MeFi as well, where I found the following prescient (or foreshadowing) quote: But – and this is a lesson that’s bound to sink into our tiny little heads at some point – content is hard, time is valuable and neither love nor money can make the Web matter more than a good night’s sleep.