AOL Buying Up Blogs

1%warren writes "The Register has posted a report on AOL's purchase of many of the more popular Blogs. It quotes an AOL executive as saying: 'You can't really put figures on this, but we think we have 78 per cent of the libertarian news blogs, and 91 per cent of the ClueTrain Manifesto fan sites.'" As happens with these things, I am not allowed to comment.

Comments

April fools?

[larien]

As a sign of how awake I was this morning, it took me until half-way through before my common sense started screaming "it's an April fool!".

The cluetrain bit was a giveaway...

Re:April fools?

[TedCheshireAcad]

All your joke are old to us.

At Last!

[pngwen]

At last big media will help me spread the word of the plight of fluffy!

All your Blogs...

[Anonymous Coward]

are belong to AOL?

Re:April 1

[baptiste]

Oh come on - its only one day. I myself look forward to April Fools on Slashdot. I still chuckle at sending pointy hair's the lossy compression story. And I think QT console is gonna BE the next thing. So sit back and enjoy - and hey, if the stories aren't funny, write one :)

April 1st is anathema to news sites.

[goneaway]

I've been cringing all morning long while wondering whether anything I read is real or not. Seems like most of the fake news is pretty obvious this year although I was caught by the story about installing OS X on x86. Maybe we're suffering from the post-9/11, Columbine shootings, social imperative to play nice even if it's not very fun.

AOL BUYS up all thought -blogs were the first step

[hillct]

AOL has also begun vigorously buying up brain waves. They have a wwbsite where you can sell them your brain waves and recieve compensation. Like blood banks, these brain wave banks are becoming popular with those down on their luck and out of work. After a successful program Launch in Boulder Colorado, the company opened up brain wave banks in major techonlogical centers, hoping to gather the thought patterns of every out-of-work engineer in such places as Silicon Valley, and Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Once contained, this highly charged free thought will be sold to Beistol Mayers/Squibb, for conversion into brain enhancing vitamin suplements.

Comment?

[InfinityWpi]

Isn't "As happens with these things, I am not allowed to comment" itself a comment?

And can we get him not to be allowed to comment on more things?

Food for thought...

[ralian]

Well, this is an April Fools' joke, but I frankly wouldn't be surprised if somewhere along the Slashdot>Andover/OSDN>VA Linux chain, AOL/TW owned some stake (In which case CmdrTaco really wouldn't be able to comment, he'd probably be under some sort of NDA or vested-interest clause or something).

April Fools Sucks

[Foxman98]

Listen Carefully

I will say this only once

DO

NOT

PUT SALT IN MY COFFEE!!!!!!!!!

Co-worker with no sense of humor did this last year. Oh, your tires got slashed? APRIL FOOLS!

Re:April Fools, or Political Conspiracy?

[ackthpt]

If it weren't 4/1, I'd be deeply afraid that AOL were trying to quash all new political thought that often seeks to encourage radical changes in the current state of politics.

Which makes April 1 the perfect cover for skullduggery. By the time you're wise the coup would be completed.

Taco's "As happens with these things, I am not allowed to comment" could actually be an indicator that Slashdot VA is/was in negotiations...

It's a thing that should make you go, "hmm"

I'm excited about the Virgo's.

[bihoy]

They now have "59 per cent of all blogging female arts graduates, many of whom are Virgos"

Now that's an audience I'd like to be closer to. ;-)

That's Not All

[Bruce Perens]

AOL recently purchased my entire family.

Re:In Other News...

[ncc74656]

Microsoft is buying up the moon, once again.

"That's not a moon...that's a space station."