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AOL Buying Up Blogs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-have-no-comment dept.

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.

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  1. In related news... by wiredog · · Score: 4, Informative
    MetaFilter was said to be signing a merger agreement with Kuro5hin to pool content between the two sites. We'll bring you more news as soon as we hear it.

    The story.

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  2. AOL BUYS up all thought -blogs were the first step by hillct · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  3. Comment? by InfinityWpi · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

  4. Re:April Fools, or Political Conspiracy? by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny
    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"

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  5. I'm excited about the Virgo's. by bihoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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. ;-)