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Monday, December 12, 2005

Will work for feud

So, in response to our gently satirical post about Tobias Buckell’s soi-disant gently satirical post about starting faux blog feuds in order to increase your blog traffic, T.B. has decided to write a sadly illiterate post about the alleged sadness of our alleged Internets illiteracy.  Do we think he got the joke about our joke about his “joke”? Sadly, No!

Tobias wrote:

So in my gently satirical post about how to gain traffic by starting a faux feud, anti-Pajamas Media site ‘Sadly No’ excerpted the opening part of my post, and utterly failed to read the rest of it to realize I was poking fun of using controversy to gain traffic, thus proving the adage that those who choose not read have no advantage over those who can’t.

To add even more class to the post, they photoshopped a piece of fruit over my face.

I guess its always easier to tear things down to create them. Or just to even stop and read them.

It is true that we are an “anti-Pajamas Media site,” as enemy of humanity Tobias Buckell has claimed.  We are, in fact, Objectively Pro-Formalwear Media.  And we don’t mind telling the world . . . it’s remarkable how comfortable we feel blogging in a tux.  Mmmm, the fabric!

But we digress.

OK, we admit, we did photoshop a piece of fruit over his face.

What can we say?  We thought it would be funny.  Even our cats laughed—after their fashion.

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But we have to admit that Tobias is right on principle.  It is much easier to tear things down to create them.  And it is true that those who choose not read have no advantage over those who can’t.  All we can say response is that bloggers words missing conviction syntax forever!  Faux yeah!

And we truly resent the implication that we are a faux-feud website.

Posted by Gavin M. on 12/12 at 07:13 AM
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