Comments on: Huffington gets Contagious http://blog.blogebrity.com/2006/01/huffington-gets-contagious/ Blogebrity is welcoming the explosion of the first generation of bloggers and their rise to media dominance. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:05:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Scaramouch http://blog.blogebrity.com/2006/01/huffington-gets-contagious/#comment-612 Scaramouch Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:09:33 +0000 http://blog.blogebrity.com/2006/01/huffington-gets-contagious/#comment-612 That's the most depressing thing I've read all day. Although it's not explicitly stated that this is the same competition that Eyebeam ran, it sure looks like it. And if that's the case, Eyebeam just sold their soul to AOL. Reading the fineprint, if Blogebrity had entered this competition last year, right now AOL would STILL own this site, and be able to make "derivateives" of it, whatever that means. It seems to me that everything the Contagious Media Workshop set out to prove last year - that you don't need a huge media conglomerate to spread a radical or different idea - just got crushed. Jonah Peretti ought to be ashamed of himself. That’s the most depressing thing I’ve read all day. Although it’s not explicitly stated that this is the same competition that Eyebeam ran, it sure looks like it. And if that’s the case, Eyebeam just sold their soul to AOL. Reading the fineprint, if Blogebrity had entered this competition last year, right now AOL would STILL own this site, and be able to make “derivateives” of it, whatever that means.

It seems to me that everything the Contagious Media Workshop set out to prove last year - that you don’t need a huge media conglomerate to spread a radical or different idea - just got crushed. Jonah Peretti ought to be ashamed of himself.

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