The Butt Ugly Weblog

Well, Manta Ray is the group, including Alex Nieminen, who all got an award and cash last week and Alex certainly is chummy with, or at least knows, all the people involved with Typepad. So, it's not really all that surprising. Everything is up for sale these days and everything is about to become a giant marketing channel. Ads. Pretty soon, you won't even be able to take a dump without having the toilet paper printed with ads or the toilet play a jingle when you flush.

--193.166.2.27, 07-Apr-2005

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I call bullshit. Can I call bullshit?

Oh yeah, it's my own blog, so I can.

Many blogs (like pinser.com) are supporting themselves through ads. Ain't nothing wrong with that. It's the personal choice of the authors, and it's your personal choice to read them (or use ~AdBlock ;-).

And frankly, Samik getting paid for all his good work does not exactly mean that Evil Marketers Ownz Your Toilet Now. A bit of perspective, please.

--JanneJalkanen, 07-Apr-2005

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Corporate whores, I say.

--Tiedemies, 07-Apr-2005

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Thanks for this interesting info Janne!

--Phil, 07-Apr-2005

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....so how much did they purchase it for?

--Phil, 07-Apr-2005

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"An undisclosed amount."

--JanneJalkanen, 07-Apr-2005

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I thought all these types of records were public information and what-not, could that information be looked up?

--Phil, 07-Apr-2005

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Only if the company is a public one. And since samik is a private person, he's of course under no obligation to tell anyone (except the tax man).

Let me put it this way: if you sold a painting you did on your spare time, would you like to submit the price to a central, public registry?

--JanneJalkanen, 07-Apr-2005

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Well I wouldn't like any asshole to go down to the tax office and request my salary information - but that's how it works for some strange reason in this country.

Your salary, your financial info, and how much you sell a company for should be no one else's business but your own.

--Phil, 08-Apr-2005

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Did Pinseri get bought-out too? Cause their handy blog-list now redirects you to blogilista - I'm assuming they got a few $$ out of this deal too?

--Phil, 08-Apr-2005

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Well, this was a nice entry, at least for me. It's always pleasant to hear positive things said about vuodatus.net ;)

--Tuomas, vuodatus.net admin, 08-Apr-2005

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Phil: No, Pinseri is Pinseri; but it would be odd to compete with yourself, especially if you're trying to make money...

Tuomas: No worries :). But you could still learn a few lessons from Blogger, who, I think, is the most user-friendly blogging platform I've seen. With maybe the exception of Bloxsom...

--JanneJalkanen, 08-Apr-2005

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