seanbonner: Blogebrity is a Hoax

May 20, 2005

Blogebrity is a Hoax

It's part of the Contagious Media Showdown so I'm guessing it's just a scam to get all the people on the blogroll to link to it and talk about it it. Thanks to Waxy for picking up on that.

UPDATE Uh oh... tempers raging in the comments.

UPDATE 2 and they respond claiming that it's going to be real. I guess we'll see, could be interesting if it is legit.

Posted by sean on May 20, 2005 09:01 AM | View blog reactions
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"Scam" is a pretty powerful allegation....there's no fraud at work here....just a lot of people contributing time and energy to something that you're RACING to trash any which way possible.

Yes, we ARE part of the Contagious Media Showdown.

NO, it isn't a "hoax"....any more than Metroblogging is a local media hoax. Blogebrity is launching a full blog/magazine site, complete with a variety of rich interactive content about bloggers. There will be plenty of value/interest (beyond sheer ego) for those interested in bloggers and blogging.

Why are you so down on the idea of engaging in a conversation with the very community that you and Metroblogging are trying to profit from? We felt there was a great opportunity to use the Contagious Media platform to start a large discussion with bloggers about their own pursuits, passions, and blog experiences.

The only thing that changed, from one day ago, is that you discovered we're NOT a commercial outfit, trying to make $$$ exploiting bloggers as an advertising platform. Instead, we're just trying to use a high-profile opportunity to start a conversation, for the good of the community at large.

Perhaps we'd all be better off with videos of us crying over a bowl of Apple Jacks.

Posted by: Blogebrity on May 20, 2005 09:34 AM

Dude? What the crap is your problem?

I've been trying to figure out what this thing you are doing is, and haven't been getting any answers from you. There are a ton of things on the contagious media showdown that are nothing but traffic getting sites, they are there to get links and nothing else. They were set up for the contest and will go away afterwards. Since there's been no word from your end I suspected this was the same thing. Since you are part of a contest designed to see who can get more links, coming up with a "fake" magazine that talks about bloggers is a damn good idea to win that contest. Hell, I fell for it.

I don't care for a second if you are commercial or non-proffit or donating every cent you make to the church of satan - I really don't care at all. I'm not down on it today any more than I was up on it yesterday. Read my posts - yesterday I was asking what it was, and today I'm posting what I've found out.

If you actually are making a magazine then I stand corrected, but if you aren't then I think I'm completely justified calling it a scam to get traffic.

And how the hell is Metroblogging a local media scam? Are my bloggers just pretending to live in those cities?

Posted by: sean bonner on May 20, 2005 10:05 AM

We like the Metroblogging sites (and SBDC)....we're not trying to go to war over that.

All we ask is that people give us a look once we get our content up, and judge us on those merits, rather than dismiss us as pure "scam" based on our 1 page worth of teaser material.

Posted by: Blogebrity on May 20, 2005 10:17 AM

You do understand how only having one page of teaser material while being part of this contest makes it easy to assume there won't ever been other content, right? And promisses of "more soon" dosen't help that either.

However, if this is real I'll be one of the first to point it out.

Posted by: sean bonner on May 20, 2005 10:25 AM

That's all we ask.

Oh, and maybe that you let us use Sixspace for the premiere party for the Blogebrity Swimsuit Edition.

Posted by: Blogebrity on May 20, 2005 10:28 AM

I've been tracking this thing for the past two days. It's the reason Blogebrity got Instalanched.

But they didn't acknowledge me, you see, because I'm not "A-list". Whatever. If this *isn't* a scam, it's sadder than sad. Who the hell's going to buy a glossy magazine about blogging when blogs themselves are free??

Posted by: The Zero Boss on May 20, 2005 11:01 AM

Zero - Not to step on your toes but I've been on this since Technorati told me they linked to me, I blogged it, then Ed saw it and then you saw it. However, I have no idea why they think I'm A-list, as my traffic hardly backs that clame up. Oddly enough, I think TONS of people would by a mag like that.

Posted by: sean bonner on May 20, 2005 12:28 PM

aaaaactually, i think i saw it somewhere else first.

which doesnt really matter i just wanted to add a comment to the thread.

Posted by: ed adkins on May 20, 2005 02:36 PM

Yes, I did get it through Ed. Didn't realize he got it through you.

I've talked with some folks who think this is obviously a joke, and that will be my opinion until/unless they show something more.

Posted by: The Zero Boss on May 20, 2005 02:56 PM

Personally, I'm bothered by any ONE entity deciding for the ENTIRE blogopsphere who the A listers are, who the B listers are, and so on. I see very little diversity -- as far as bloggers of color and women. THAT bothers me. And call me whiney all ya want, I really don't care. You're looking at trouble when/if you decide to publish a "magazine" about a community that consists of 8+ million blogs and YOU act as the authoritative voice.

That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

Posted by: Genia on May 23, 2005 08:29 PM

Hey, what's wrong with donating to the Church of Satan? Sheesh! Anti-religious zealots. :P

Posted by: b0b on May 24, 2005 11:11 AM

did she say "bloggers of color?"

Posted by: ed adkins on May 24, 2005 03:25 PM

Hey I'm a Blogger of Color!

(Err white's a color, right?)

Posted by: Anonymous on May 30, 2005 11:27 PM