As usual, the Flea has exposed my real intentions in writing here day after day after pathetic day - the dream of undeserved riches. Well, apparently that dream is no longer a waste of time as the NYT reports that pickings are slim but wallets are fat in the bubbly economic world of web buy-outs:
Media companies are still hungry. Is there much left for them to consume that they'll find satisfying? NBC Universal's $600 million acquisition of iVillage, an early Internet company catering to women, highlights the continuing interest by media companies in adding new Web sites to reach and connect with consumers, hobbyists, parents, investors, car buyers, Scrabble players and virtually every other niche audience.Scrabble players? Investors?!? Phft!!! How obvious. How structured. Doesn't the world of mega finance know that the real wealth of the web is to be found in the drifty and derivative? Like the products of GX40 MegaCo International.
Now, how to pitch the deal? Maybe a merger or two will have to start the ball rolling. If the Flea joined forces with A Good Beer Blog you might have a new blog called Toast of the Flea in which the beer and other beverage tastes of really skinny often hypercephalic celebrities are shared. I'll have to work on this. But it's looking gold.
Comments
mr - March 13, 2006 9:13 AM
Will boble-head dolls be involved? I think that's the best place to start. How about company founders first?
Gordo - March 13, 2006 9:21 AM
I'd certainly buy an Alan McLeod bobble-head doll.
Alan - March 13, 2006 9:26 AM
I think we need great bloggers through history series first, you know people who have actually changed the affairs of man, educated the masses, come up with one frikkin' new idea...
Gordo - March 13, 2006 9:42 AM
OK, so many "buy" is too strong a word. "Covet"?
Maybe more of a theme bobble for each blog. Flea's is easy. I'm not sure about yours. ;-)
gr - March 13, 2006 10:38 AM
mr sounds like my wife, it is her initials, the email looks like hers too. Poor woman has joined this depraved and useless pit of discussion.
I want my Alan McLeod bobble head doll to be the 'Alan dressed as a clown' type. With real fuzz on the head.
mr - March 13, 2006 10:42 AM
Alan: the man, the myth, the McLeod, coming soon to novelty stores near you! All fuzz, all the time.
ALan - March 13, 2006 10:53 AM
Rainbow fuzz is good but I am going to have to be #578 in the series of blogger bubbleheads. And how does MR related to this project? Can GR's pigs meet MR's doggie doodles and create some great bloggers bobblehead proto-types?
gr - March 14, 2006 5:44 AM
That project looks cool, but is not the wife. Who would guess somebody else uses ddd?
Oh yes, we can make little clownish McLeods.....................
David Janes bobble heads might be especially entertaining....