Ads On Your Blog
posted by Bobby Lightfoot at 13:15
9/26/2005
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- Name: Bobby Lightfoot
- Location: Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
Finding out daily just what a shabby little fucking lie it all is. And loving it.
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5 Comments:
Too right.
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Well, of course, Simon! Why the hell do you think Google bought Blogger?
The only way we'll have left to fight them is to make sure your content and annotations elicit the most Dada-like contextual-ad response...
Oh, blah blah blah... and musicians should all give away their music for free, because they do it for love, right? I've heard all this self-righteous bullshit before, Napster fan-boy.
No one's forcing you to put ads on your blog, and you CHOOSE to use Blogger to post. If Blogger goes over and you don't like it, put your blog up somewhere else, no sweat. There will always be a free place for you to expound on and on about anything you'd like. So shut the fuck up, or at least talk fucking HIGH-SCHOOL level capitalism.
There are blogs and there are blogs, right? If you're blogging to feel the little half-chubby you get when you see your name in print, go for it, cat. But when your shit kicks Dave Barry's front teeth out and you've put in countless hours of research over a lifetime of work and you're funny as hell (read: Neddie), you've EARNED the right to try and eke out a living doing it. Sure, maybe that stretches the definition of Blogging, but maybe you're just trying to squish it down to your own tiny size.
All fuckin'nnnnn RIGHT! Now THAT'S-a come-back! I was hoping for a good hack-n'-slash, but I seem to have Missed You Completely with my opening gambit... sorry 'bout that, how abouuutt...THIS!!
Coupla misunderstandings, cat - you're the words guy, I'll take the blame. Let me clarify, so you can at least lamb-baste me for the right reasons...
-"Napster-boy": not suggesting you steal music, Mr. Literal Man, just that the same wrong-headed argument(intellectual property art (in this case, blogs) should somehow be given away for free, and if it's charged-for, it's somehow devalued and should be scorned or rightfully stolen) has been used by little music-stealing shits for so long that it's actually become the status quo! Whether you meant it to or not, your statement putting down all bloggers who choose to run ads on their site comes off exactly the same way - as if all blogging is just nothing-thoughts, should be given away for free to protect some false Integrity, and any attempt to collect income from it somehow devalues it. Get it?
(BTW, you're way smart enough to know that Napster didn't kill the label-artists, it killed the chance for indies to eke out a reasonable living - and eliminated virtually all group-based experimental music by starving it out, duh)
"Dave Barry": geez, that one wasn't that tough... I fucking HATE DB, he's an example of a bad blogger, unlike, for the example I used, Neddie... The point is, Barry makes millions, and ONE of your posts provides as much goddamned entertainment as his entire year's-worth of 'output', at least to me(see, "kicks DB's teeth..."). And while you're one hell-of-a-read, Neddie's got a whole different kind of edu-tainment going on, too - and if he (or anyone else) wants to charge for it, fuck you for trying to make him feel bad - because both of you (and a whole lot of others) are kicking Barry's teeth right now. And don't lay the whole marketing/demo blahblah, I know why DB makes the big $$... not the point. Blogging is the new (fill in the blank, you're better at this than I am), let it have it's own *value* - don't kill it in the crib. In America, that means greenbacks, baby... and why not? Since when is it BAD to make money for art in America (see that's where I'd say "Napster-boy" again)?
Of fucking COURSE I'm on your side, why the hell do you think I care about your comments enough to yell at you about it? What you say carries weight, and you're dead-wrong on this one. So lemme try to piss you off again - where the fuck do you get off telling every fucking blogger that That's Not Entertainment? Who made YOU Scalia(okay, that's awkward, but I couldn't think of anyone else)? Wanna give it away for free? Go for it! Most blogs aren't meant to be Art, cool (see, "little half-chubby...") But what if the blog IS Art, cat? Could it be? If you got paid $60k/year to do it, would it be? Shouldn't the readers decide?
Your Pal D
ps please, with the email-threats, brother... your words hurt enough, can't you see? No need to get all Un-Civil.
Hee hee-
It's like a bad marriage.
We're like, agreeing, but I'm agreeing in Swahili and you're agreeing in Esperanto.
And what's funny is it turns out you're defending, like, my favorite person on th' planet, it looks like. How dare you.
Seriously, though- now that I get what you're talking about I realize what I'm sounding like. Yeah, totally. Hmm. I'm seeing it.
Nah- I just meant-actually, never mind. Maybe that's wrong too. I didn't mean to sound like I was against promoting or advertising your blig. I'm totally all over that. I love the idea of makin' some scratch like that. I meant more like takin' a cut for letting Monsanto camp out on your shit.
And then writing about how bad Monsanto is.
Oh, I'm so glad we're good. So glad.
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