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28 February 2007

MeFi on PBS for a half-second... [More:]during Frontline's "NewsWar" Part 3 segment on "The New Universe of Online Media". Screenshot and more coming up...
For the record, the segment spent a few minutes with Amanda and her ex-partner at Rocketboom, a minute with Kos, and over his last quote, showed blink-and-you-miss-em screenshots of...
Instapundit
Gawker
Wonkette
newassignment.net (that's the title, it's url was newassignment.wordpress.com - is this something I should know about?)
MetaFilter
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PopCandy (at usatoday.com?!?)
Engadget
Kotaku
Michelle Malkin
THIS
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(they screwed up the url on THAT SITE and got a linkfarm instead... OMGLOLWTF are the wingnuts gonna be pissed!)
Drudge Report
Then Jeff Jarvis started talking and I tuned out...
Sorry, no MetaChat.
posted by wendell 28 February | 04:55
oh, god. Pray metachat never gets noticed... like anywhere. Except mefi. To be honest, if we somehow had some really great internal search, I'd rather the site not be indexed at all (as much as that's ever possible with robots.txt blah blah).
posted by taz 28 February | 05:11
Don't worry taz. These were half-second screenshots at most. Nobody but a total lunatic (me) would go to the trouble of harvesting addresses for these sites. And if the METACHAT logo ever showed up onscreen without the address line, the gawkers and stalkers would all go looking for the .com...
posted by wendell 28 February | 05:46
They screwed up the url on THAT SITE and got a linkfarm instead... OMGLOLWTF are the wingnuts gonna be pissed!

Fuckin A Yay!
posted by danostuporstar 28 February | 09:11
wendell: that's really obsessive. Congratulations. I'm in awe.
posted by warbaby 28 February | 10:02
Taz-

In followup to the Frontline story, People Magazine sent me an email asking if I had any contact info on you. Something about a cover story they want to have ready when Web 3.0 rolls around. . .

What should I tell them?
posted by danf 28 February | 10:46
aaaah. So they've already heard about our unique handlebar moustache user app. Damn papparazzi. Curses!
posted by taz 28 February | 13:24
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