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A Day Late and a Dollar Stoopid

by: Dean Barker

Fri Jan 09, 2009 at 06:06:45 AM EST
(Bumped: To call attention the update - promoted by Mike Hoefer)

Damn. Someone at Gawker discovered our Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.
For its liberal bloggers, too lazy to research alternatives, it was the - how to put it? - politically correct way to publish. And why should they have bothered looking elsewhere, since it was a fine choice for their purposes? But I suspect their built-in biases against market mechanisms played a role.
Sorry - no link. I suspect my built-in bias against celebrity sarcasosites played a role. Or I'm lazy. Or something.

Back out of the land of Teh Stoopid for a moment, there's something coming today about that little misadventure - stay tuned.

Update by Mike: Here is the "little something" Dean mentions. Save Soapblox. Dean will have more on our approach later, but for now this diary at DKOS will give you some background and the chance for early giving.
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Actually, I think that the assessment that liberals have a bias (0.00 / 0)
against market mechanisms is on point.  That's because liberals are people who like to make decisions for themselves and those who prefer "market mechanisms" are looking for automatic controls (deus in machina), so they don't have to decide.  The "free market" is the secular equivalent of Allah.
I love this (4.00 / 2)
If choosing the cheap, easy-to-use, and generally reliable option is not free market behavior, then I am really confused.
Gawker (4.00 / 3)
One more thing. Gawker is hostile to bloggers. I respect them, somewhat, for admitting it. It's a long story, but essentially Gawker thinks writers should be paid, attractive, and generally ... cool. They think of the Internet as a cheaper printing press for the magazine industry, not a noisy place for democratic discussion or, say, video clips of a cat playing piano.

It's sort of a content trade war. Arm yourself.

And admit that they're right about writers being paid.

If I had a nickle for every.... (4.00 / 1)
I was gonna say, "4 rating received," but I'd rather bank on every 4 rating given.

Wait. Do bloggers = writers in this equation?

www.KusterforCongress.com  

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On blogs, they do (0.00 / 0)
Rachel Sklar (pictured in link above) wrote a widely circulated piece last year called "Don't Write for Free" (though now -- still I think -- at Huffington Post, Sklar started at Gawker). The premise was, if you have a personal blog, blog on. But don't write for free on places like ... HuffPo, and presumably places like Blue Hampshire. :-!

But Rachel isn't a Democratic activist, is she?

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I'm moreofa Lee Sklar fan (0.00 / 0)

Aren't you?

www.KusterforCongress.com  

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Hmm (0.00 / 0)
His very recognizable bass playing style has been heard on hits by Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Hall & Oates, Jackson Browne, Phil Collins, Clint Black, Reba McEntire, Billy Cobham, and George Strait, to name just a few.

Tough call ... Rachel worked for Nick Denton, Lee played with some of my non-faves.

OK, for the sake of Linda Ronstadt, I'll go with Lee.


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I would tend to agree (4.00 / 3)
I think all of the attractive, cool bloggers I know should be paid vast sums - and that includes me, dammit.  
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SoapBlox (0.00 / 0)
I'm in, for a few.

What is the BH approach Mike alludes to above?

BNT (0.00 / 0)
If I had any regular readers, they'd testify to my love of this shot:
http://www.bluenewstribune.com...
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nothing major... (4.00 / 2)
I think Dean was going to write a diary.

I think we will be hanging with SoapBlox for some time to come. The incident may help drive some innovation and development in the platform.

Hope > Fear



Create a free Blue Hampshire account and join the conversation.

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Yes. (0.00 / 0)
I was out most of today, but I'll write something up tomorrow.

Keeping Soapblox secure and stronger, and ultimately making it open-source, is a major "shovel-ready" project that will significantly increase our prog-infrastructure.

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