PayPerPost: Stupid and evil.
Here we go again… another idiot tries to “revolutionize” marketing by paying people off to shill for a company. This time it’s called PayPerPost.com
How many times do we have to go through this people!??!
The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust… you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it’s so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.
Superfoods…
Trying to get healthy since I’m not a spring chicken anymore. So, I’ve started putting this Green Vibrance stuff in 6 or 7 ounces of apple juice every day, along with a shot of liquid vit. B and some liquid chlorophyll. BANG! I’m like a superhero now… I’m like 5x as alert as I was just drinking coffee in the AM, and I’m a full for the first four or five hours of the day.
I’ve started making a second 6 ounce shot for later in the day and it really fills me up and makes me feel more alert. I’m also sleeping better. The stuff is made up of a bunch of vegetables–which no one gets enough of.
Just thought I would share. 
Anyone else have superfood tips?!?
Update: Slashfood has discussed GV! Also, 7 people have given it high reviews on Amazon.
Netscape live!
Netscape.com is no longer in beta… we just switched over the www.netscape.com domain! Getting crushed with traffic, but servers are holding up OK. We’re gonna need to add a lot more servers–people are a really getting into it. Thanks to the tech team for staying up overnight.
If you’re a site owner I suggest getting your story in there and getting in on some of the traffic action.
Scientology folks get tipped off by Netscape Metajournalism
I asked one of anchors to find out if this video on YouTube was actually a Scientology recruiting video or not. Within an hour of us looking into it YouTube has taken the video down and they say it was property of the “L. Ron Hubbard Library.”
That’s what this is all about in my mind: fact-checking and following up on all the crazy stuff out there to see if it’s true!
Looks like some videos are still up on YouTube… these are amazing–they feel like something from a B-grade sci-movie.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8OWnl1urNYA&search=scientology
The files are still in the listings even though they have been taken down.
More metajournalism
We’re doing some good followup (metajournalism) over at the new Netscape. Sometimes is something tiny, but important…. interested to see where this whole metajournalism takes us.
Custom publishing…
We’ve got a custom publishing group at Weblogs, Inc. that helps companies launch their blogs. We just did one for AccuQuote which you can find here: http://www.accuquoteblog.com/
Heilemann the hater gets called out!
This is great... Hater of anyone who’s made it, John Heilemann, gets called out for his lack of fact-checking and obsession with wealth/power (and while all this goes on my Q rating goes up… thanks John!)
- Although most think the day of Internet arguments and dot com boom discussions are over, we are far from seeing the last of these epic debates. One particularly obsessed curmudgeon of the digital doomsday is John Heilemann, Wired writer and Bill Gates hater (he penned the hardcover missive “Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era”). The patrician pundit uses the pages of New York Magazine (“Suit 2.0,” July 3-10) to lob thinly veiled insult grenades at AOL’s newest loudmouth that would be king Jason Calacanis (creator of Weblogs Inc., a company he recently sold to AOL for over $25 million dollars). Calling Calacanis everything from a desperate social climber to a fatso, Heilemann heaps loving tablespoonfuls of scorn atop the young blog mogul’s head. “The last time I heard from Calacanis, he was royally pissed off with me for a column I wrote last year, in which I referred, en passant, to his ‘Web 1.0 flameout,’” Heilemann writes proudly. But the chest thumping is rather off key. Calacanis’ magazine, Silicon Alley Reporter did indeed go out of print, but it was far from a flame-out. After most of the New York tech companies folded in 2000-2001, there was little for the magazine to report, so Jason cleverly re-branded the media property as Venture Reporter and began publishing stories and data related to the venture capital business. After just a couple of years, Calacanis sold the company to Dow Jones Inc. (not a shabby suitor) and used the money to start up his next venture-Weblogs Inc. No one will argue that Calacanis is the easiest guy to get along with. Born in Brooklyn and just as brash and outspoken as the borough, he’s widely despised by many tech gurus on the West Coast (like San Francisco based Heilemann) who can’t stomach his arrogance-meets-blue collar grit profile. Nevertheless, Calacanis gets results. Interestingly, the dour tech scribe mentioned one other dot com magician-Marc Andreessen. Once the superstar of Netscape-eventually landing his very own Time magazine cover- Andreessen fell during the Internet blood bath of years past, and everyone piled on, slipping poison-tipped daggers into all the tender parts of his battered profile. But the real entrepreneurs never say die, and even now Andreessen is heading up a new well-funded web application venture called Ning headquartered in California and New York. So, while the real players are still playing, the benchwarmers and critics are still stewing over playing time they haven’t put in the practice hours to earn.
Netscape effect… in full effect!
It looks like Netscape has taken down its first site… I think that’s a good thing! I guess we need to make a Netscape Cache huh?
Canaries and coal mines…
You know a society is out of control when they point the finger at the messenger. Leaders attack journalists when they are trying to deflect attention from their own actions.
Journalists, artists, and commentators are the of the canaries in the coal mine. When they start having the life squeezed out their tiny, but vocal, lungs we should be concerned–very, very concerned. The quickest way to control the discourse in silence the dissenting opinions because that 1% make 90% of the noise and inspire the masses to reconsider the party line.
