Nosebleedcity: Making Money With a Website

It’s time to play Let’s Make a Deal on the OOTW, otherwise known as How To Achieve Prominence Without Really Trying To Take Terrorists. If you have trouble deciding, just remember that our President has the same problem. If so, you know who to blame.

Previous 2010 “winners”:

New TSA security screening “causes a huge inconvenience for all of us.”

“What about compliments? You didn’t put that in the list.”

Notes 2nd anniversary of Mumbai massacre, forgets 1st anniversary of Ft. Hood massacre

Obama signals no course correction in wake of electoral disaster

“We’re gonna punish our enemies…”

After shutting out Republicans in drafting legislation, Obama complains that GOP won’t share blame for failure

He realized too late that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects” when it comes to public works

Cuts off microphone when questioner starts debating tax policies

“I can’t let this be a war without end, and I can’t lose the whole Democratic Party.”

Obama quotes Declaration, leaves out “endowed by their Creator”

Obama trots out “feel your pain” attempt the day after WH releases his social calendar

“They talk about me like a dog!”

Obama takes credit for drawdown schedule Bush negotiated

“We’re buying shrimp, guys.”

Obama endorses Ground Zero mosque, then says he wasn’t “commenting on the wisdom” of building it at the site

Slams GOP for focusing on elections — from a fundraiser in Austin, TX

Obama scolds politicians with “We shouldn’t be campaigning all the time” … while on The View

Obama says First Couple “not far removed” from economic pain in financial collapse despite making millions in 2008

Obama expects to be held accountable on jobs, but it’s Bush’s fault

New NASA mission objectives all about self-esteem, none about space

Obama misquotes Statue of Liberty poem and screws up its history

Obama golfs as BP’s CEO yachts

Obama says Gulf disaster will have similar impact to 9/11, then goes golfing the next day

“We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers so I know whose ass to kick“

“Singularly focused” Obama’s golfing, fundraising, vacation, and sports events

“Obviously, the loss of Daniel Pearl was one of those moments that captured the world’s imaginationbecause it reminded us of how valuable a free press is.”

Criticizes AZ immigration enforcement for paper checking while Secret Service checks immigration statusof students at Obama event

“Information becomes a distraction” with X-boxes, PlayStations, iPods, iPads

“I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.”

President who demands that Americans show health-insurance papers suddenly skittish about residency documents

Playing golf instead of paying respects to the late Polish president

“Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower”

Gives 17-minute answer to question about being overtaxed

Believes Tea Party core is Birthers

Obama refused to be seen with Netanyahu

“Your employer, it’s estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3000%!”

Obama off by $868 billion on CBO deficit savings projection of ObamaCare

Obama challenges GOP on tort reform, winds up proving GOP point on reconciliation

Obama’s “Acme Insurance” anecdote proves he doesn’t understand insurance

Obama claims 2 million jobs saved or created, website shows 590K

Obama gripes about filibusters in a year with none … after having 60 seats in the Senate

Obama says “corpse-man” for corpsman 3 times at Nat’l Prayer Breakfast

Scolding the Supreme Court over ruling that he got completely wrong during SOTU

People are unhappy with Obama’s performance because he didn’t get enough public face time to explain himself

Suddenly jobs saved or created “never expected to be the public accounting of Obama’s goal to save or create 3.5 million jobs”

Obama rushes home for minor injury to family friend, keeps golfing after EunuchBomber attack

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Politico reports:

“Huffington has styled herself as a ‘new media’ maven and an expert on the effective deployment of news and celebrity on the Internet in the service of political ends,” says the complaint. “As will be shown at trial, Huffington’s and Lerer’s image with respect to the Huffington Post is founded on false impressions and inaccuracies: They presented the ‘new media’ ideas and plans of Peter Daou and James Boyce as their own in order to raise money for the website and enhance their image, and breached their promises to work with Peter and James to develop the site together."...

Democrats need “to develop a dominant position within the Internet,” Daou said during an early meeting about the site, according to the complaint. “It is a system pushing the message, not just for fundraising,” he allegedly said.

Huffington called the charge of stolen ideas and broken deals “a completely absurd, ludicrous supposition” from men whom she’d turned down for jobs on the site.

This might be interesting — a stark presentation of the Huffington Post's political agenda. But, really, I'm not too impressed with this notion of stealing "the idea" for a business. Was there a contract or a partnership or not? And it's not much of an idea anyway — a "dominant" website with a political slant. The trick is to do it well and get the traffic. Anyone could try to do it. Huffington did it. Possibly because she picked the right people to work with, and it wasn't Boyce and Daou.

The lawsuit touches on the same legal frontiers of intellectual property and deal-making as did a famous lawsuit Facebook settled in 2008. The success of the suit, which seeks unspecified damages, will hinge on whether Daou and Boyce can prove they had offered “something more specific than a generalized notion” and that Huffington had agreed to make them part of the deal, said Dan Kornstein, a prominent New York litigator.

What is the "more specific" thing? The complaint says the idea was for "a collective of blogs by notable personalities, non-partisan news aggregation, issue-specific web pages, scoops and exclusives derived from the founders’ personal relationships with Democratic Party and media insiders, and online community-building, with the purpose of driving Internet traffic and ‘page views’ for politically progressive messaging.” I'm not impressed.

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