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Monday, August 21, 2006

Are they better off?

by Frank Paynter on August 21, 2006

The AP reports a couple of firings and an executive resignation at the walled city of AOHell. It’s a good time to be job hunting. A bad time for me to be criticizing Calacanis land. I’m all pumped up over the possibility of writing a little for WeblogsInc. I was looking at the titles of draft posts here at listics… wondering if any will fit:

  • Meanness
  • Middle finger
  • Dog farts
  • Thanks Jay Rosen
  • Soylent Diesel
  • Fundamentalism, forgiveness, and the zeitgeist of pleasure

Those are just a few of the false starts that haven’t found their way forward into listics. I hope there’s a place for them at WeblogsInc! Ahhh… probably not. Ed Sanders never found favor in Parade magazine either.

Speaking of whom:

thanks to woods lot
…as always, thanks to Mark Woods

Elsewhere and else-when I was led to this picture by Ronni Bennett… quite a resemblance I thought.

walley

I wonder if you write for them if you’re allowed to poke fun at them too?

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Pausing for the poetry of web 2 oh oh oh my goodness

by Frank Paynter on August 21, 2006

SB, of Watermark, presents this sweet contrivance

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Readership

August 21, 2006

There being few Dickenson’s among us (and perhaps more than few Dickens’) we write to be read. Shelley is on about traffic and audience this morning, noting that her new triple play — Just Shelley, The Bb Gun, and ScriptTeaser: aggregated at Planet Powers — receives less traffic but probably has about the [...]

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