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Pot... kettle... blackSo why does Consumerist get to say who's a fake blog, when Consumerist itself is just one of about a dozen front-ends for privately-held company Gawker Media? It, and the others, maintain the look of either personal or group blogs, and make no mention on their front pages of the business behind them.
How much business? From Wiki: While Denton does not go into detail over Gawker Media's finances, he has downplayed the profit potential of blogs[1], declaring "Blogs are likely to be better for readers than for capitalists. While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses" on his personal site[2]. However, in the February 20, 2006 issue of New York Magazine, Jossip founder David Hauslaib estimated Gawker.com's annual advertising revenue to be at least $1 million two years ago, and possibly over $2 million a year[3]. Combined with low operating costs -- mostly web hosting fees and writer salaries -- Denton is believed to be turning a healthy profit.
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Re:Shocking!
This is an outrage!
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You may now kill yourself.I like Gawker's take on this:
The 22-year-old founder of Facebook wants to sell for $1.5 billion, and the twit just might get away with it. You ready to kill yourself yet? Here, use our knife and be sure to cut vertically.
I think anyone with any modicum of programming skill has been repeatedly slapping their forehead over the last year at the money being made from some very basic PHP scripts and what SEEMED like really silly ideas.
Seriously -- if someone came to you a few years ago and was like, "Umm, ya, we're looking to take, like, Geocities, and mash it up with Blogger, and AOL Instant Messenger, except uglier than any of those things, and maybe graft on some awkward MP3.com type capabilities, and leverage the awesome power of ColdFusion, and we've registered an awesome domain name -- MYSPACE, get it, like My Space, like My Web Space
Or if someone was like, "ya, I envision this site where everyone at every college can just upload all their personal info, pictures, basically just like Blogger, except only other people at their college can see it, and they can like join clubs and stuff, and groups, like any group they want, and post pictures of themselves doing bong hits, put the whole thing on a PHP/MySQL ball..."
I'd be like, "ya, I don't see college kids posting pictures of themselves doing illegal things, first of all, dumbass. Secondly, why join an online group when you can join a REAL group, in real life, with live members of the opposite sex present? And thirdly, why should they use YOUR facebook when their college prolly has one of its own? Even if they did, why wouldn't they use Yahoo Groups and Blogger and AIM just like everyone else?"
Shows how much I know.
Ya, I could have built this stuff. I'm not even a CS major or programmer, but I know enough scripting (perl/ruby) and server admin I could have pulled it together. But I didn't! It never would have occured to me to make something so bloody simple and so minimally better than what is already out there.
Just goes to show, it's all about the users, and if you're not a user, if you're not in their shoes, it's really hard to anticipate what will be exciting to them. -
Re:So the "Humanity Prize"
look, abolishing all starvation, bedbugs, and unfair business practices is a great and worthy cause. but so is saving the penny! thank the lord for kfed and richard branson. two gold diggers with an eye for noble causes.
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Fashionable to Flog Bloggers
I have this theory... Mainstream media (traditional media, dead tree media, whatever) is under a lot of pressure these days, not from bloggers per se, but the popularity of blogs as an advertising medium. Look at Gawker media and Weblogs Inc. Where would those advertising dollars be spent if banners weren't showing up on the two networks 100+ blogs? Volvo launched an ad campaign with Y! 360, or was it MSN Spaces, no matter, the point is, MSM is too rigid to adapt. They're like the dinosaurs. No one is 100% sure why they went extinct, but whether it was a gradual change where they couldn't adapt or a catastropic event that wiped them out, the fact is, they're gone in favor of a more hearty species. Time will tell the truth about blogs.
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Judging by the American administration
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Re:What a horrible mess...
CNN carried a press conference with Condoleeza Rice
Is this the same Condoleeza Rice that went shoe shopping on Thursday?
This is going to be big, this is going to be very big and the implications to the american society are yet to be seen. One thing is for sure, historians in the future will refer to this period in sociological, economic and political terms as well. Not only as a natural disaster. -
Re:I think the tide turned...
Hey I love making fun of rich spoiled brats like everyone else, but Britney simply didn't say that.
http://www.gawker.com/news/media/us-weekly/lifting -and-misquoting-its-just-like-us-037392.php/ -
Re:coincidence theory
Rumor has it that there's a recent naked, barking Jenna video floating around the Internets.
