Last gleeful little blast at Pajamas Media, but isn't it wonderful that the guy who started it all, Roger L Simon, is acting like he had nothing to do with it? This is the guy who tried to surgically attach himselt onto Claudia Rosett and leach oil for food stuff out of her. The same guy who rallied all the self proclaimed "top talent on the web" to get out there and make some money; the same guy who went coast to coast as the big shot from Hollywod having "meetings" (Hollywood fakes all love meetings; like the phone was never invented); making appearances; giving interviews; and raising $3.5 mil (Hollywood guys never use their own money) and now he's acting like he had nothing to do with creating a monster whose sole purpose was to make money by creating an ad supported Goliath that would corner the web ad dollars without a thought for creating quality. Just an observation. So as some of the real talent on the web wade in (Ann Althouse, a few outside websites, together with Buzz Machine, a moderate voice ,and of course humble little me), allow me a constructive POV

Is there a possibility for something like that to work? As I said in another post, all the ad guys I know tell me that the click through rate TO ACTUALLY BUY SOMETHING from blogs sucks; that a business model would have to have something really unique, something compelling, something to attract the kinds of people with real money who actually buy things. The ones with credit cards who have real jobs, not a bunch of other bloggers with far too much time on their hands. A combo of SEX, ART, and Violence

combined with the ever popular big tits (top) works real well for me. And it works real good for a lot of us.

For some success matrixes without $3.5 million start up: Defamer, which courts a libel suit every day; double ditto for Socialite's Life; then there is Perez Hilton (AKA page six six six) who outs "homos not so erectus" each day; and the interesting every week, Bad Jocks, always laying waste to the always statutory raping jock community. And then there is Gawker,an insult to everyone who thinks their shit don't stink. It didn't take three point five cents to start up any of them