They Eat Blogs Don't They? Options

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I seriously doubt that Yahoo or Google will ever create a blog about evil anti-social women hating homosexuals bent on destorying the employer/employee system in the United States

Micropersuasion has a blog entry about Yahoo looking for people to work on a new technolgy website Yahoo is developing. And so the cannibalism of Endgaget and Gizmodo begins.

Saturday Night Fever didn't mark the birth of Disco. Saturday Night Fever marked the day that Mainstream Media discovered Disco and decided that it was then big enough for them to make a shit load of money off of it.

Maybe I'm just too much smarter than everyone else, but it seems to me that if you are blogging about shit that Yahoo and Google feel comfortable blogging about, then you my friend are just developing a market for Yahoo and Google to take.

Again, the whole fahking point of a low barrier-to-entry publishing model is so that voices and thoughts that the mainstream media won't present CAN be presented. I knew sooner or later that Black would come in handy, I have a whole fahking life time of experience at being a niche player.

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You gotta love the title Blogger Baron that the article below assigns to Nick Denton. Only a White Man could be a Nick Denton, there is no way in hell that anything but a White Man could sell this sack-of-shit known as Gawker Media to the world.

Anywho, it seems that Microsoft is also looking to pay people to blog on stuff that Gawker Media and Weblogs Inc seem to be blogging about.

Microsoft Recruiting Paid Bloggers
by Shankar Gupta, Thursday, Jun 23, 2005 6:00 AM EST
MICROSOFT'S MSN RECENTLY PUT OUT a call for paid bloggers to write and edit Web sites about five broad topics: fashion/food/style, music, sports, technology, and television.. http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cf...e&art_aid=31467

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Jason Calacanis is trying to put up a brave face to the fact that Microsoft is using his name and Nick Denton ("Gawker Media") to describe Microsoft's New Blog Network. You know, "The Microsoft Blog Network" alone seems like it would have been enough of a slap in the face to Denton and Calacanis. Microsoft actually using "Denton" and "Calacanis" in its press release to describe its blog network is like a grown man punching out a little kid.

Microsoft's use of Calacanis and Denton in its press release is an alert to advertisers that there is a new Top Dog Blogger in town. And, that Advertisers may want to hold any big advertising campaigns they may have been considering for Weblogs Inc. or Gawker Media. After all, who else but major blog advertisers even know who Jason Calacanis and Nick Denton are? The fat women who seem to be the target audience of Microsoft Filter probably don't even know what a blog is.

We wrote previously about how people blogging on general interest PG topics were just creating a market for the big guys to take. Now, who else has more experience at waiting for a market to get big enough to steal than Microsoft?

I seem to recall some tech writer commenting in the early days of the PC/networking business on how nuts it was for the CEO of a small company publishing a windows add-in to be welcoming Microsoft as a competitor


Microsoft Filter

Today we officially launched MSN Filter. Filter has been kind of a labor of love for me as a pet project for us to create more of a dialog with the online community and build a closer relationship with consumers. The model is essentially Nanopublishing as originally championed by Nick Denton at Gawker Media and Weblogs Inc. Both great blog networks with their own audiences that they’ll continue to be successful with.

Days like this are why I love to work at Microsoft. There is nothing more rewarding than watching an idea become a reality through the hard work of a dedicated team who care about making a difference. The people at MSN care about making a difference.

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A Matter of Size

Some housewife somewhere no one gives a sheat about was famous for about 15 minutes because she almost single-handedly brought down the televsion show Married with Children. Some woman, who didn't like hearing the word poop on her tv, decided to launch a campaign to get Married with Children off the air.

The fact of the matter is that THE reason the major television networks are losing audience is because MASS oriented entertainment ends up being so bland and White Bread that the only people who can stand looking it are the tiredass/lardass White Trash Beauches watching Oprah. I briefly looked at Microsoft Filter, and women seem to be the target audience.

The biggest nut for GAY TV to crack is coming up with entertainment that is actually entertaining enough to attract gay men but doesn't offend The White Trash majority who are the bulk of the customer base for major advertisers. And, so far, no one has come up with any form of entertainment that can hold the attention of Gay Men while not offending losers who are the bulk of the customers for major advertisers.

All in All, I would say that Major/Large/Nationwide advertising deals at Weblogs Inc and Gawker Media are gone. Major advertisers know that they can count on Microsoft to be White Bread enough to not offend the fat beauches. The major advertisers for Blogs (it seems to me) will be companies seeking a niche market that can't be reached economically through existing methods of mass marketing. Again we have that aggregating a mass thing and Google.

Oh, by the way. A major niche player has just died.

Founder of Ebony and Jet magazines dies
CHICAGO (AP) — Pioneering publisher John Johnson, whose Ebony magazine countered stereotypical coverage of blacks, died Monday. He was 87.