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Talent Links - Genius Steals

Some semi-enterprising soul has put blood sweat and tears into right-clicking, and in effect copied the entire contents of Gawker and Page Six onto seperate blogs sans ads or registration. Guess this guy hasn’t run across bug me not or adblock.

His (or her) eschewing of technology aside, this has to be the laziest example of Blogebrity whoring since, well us I guess. His Kaczynski-esque mainfesto reads as follows:

“The idea of the NY POST becoming spam peddlers has forced us to create a blog to alleviate gossip hounds of any barriers to daily trash. We don’t like registration gates and here is our method of bypassing them”

Anyone have any guesses whether the spam he’s referring to is the actual content of P6, or some sort of advertising, or is there really any difference at all?

Anyway, your friend and mine Steve Hall managed to get an email response out of today’s cybermaverick:

“This is a piece of performance art meets media. We wanted to see if we can draw viewership away from popular online blogs and news sites by removing the advertising. Would people actually enjoy the site more without the pop up advertising, drag overs, and other obtrusive types of online banner advertising?

Plus most people read the NY POST for the Gossip only so to us it was interesting to note that and really expose the NY POST for the right wing rag that it is. Also we have come to the conclusion that the registration process adopted by the POST was done in an effort to collect emails. We do not endorse spam dealers or peddlers!”

Well, good luck getting that rationale in front of Rupert’s hit squad who is probably on the 3rd floor of your 6th floor walkup as we speak. I can just hear the knock at the door now “I’M RUPERT MURDOCH, MEDIA TYRANT!”

Good work to Steve at Adrants for this.

This entry was posted by Nick Douglas on Wednesday, June 29th, 2005 at 10:16 am and is filed under Gawker Media, Jessica Coen. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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