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If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands.
If you're KTVZ, you just get oddball content off the AP wire that will occassionally get you a pile of traffic. But if you don't have an AP wire feed like they do, there are a couple of not-so-ethical methods to go about it.
Barney said on 10/16/06 @ 08:58 PM: Uh, Jake? It wasn't "oddball content off the AP wire," as I explained in my blog, it was a pickup from NWCN.com of a KING5.com story.
And after being Dugg, then Farked, today we were "Daily Rotten"ed. The saga continues... it's an amazing tale of what the Internet apparently is all about now - reading odd water-cooler stuff and commenting on it and posting it somewhere else, ad infinitum.
Jake said on 10/16/06 @ 09:31 PM: My mistake barn, but I do know that you've gotten Farked with AP wire feeds before, correct?
Barney said on 10/17/06 @ 08:06 AM: Actually, no, if you went back and read an April blog entry, you'd find it's a LOCAL story (the kids who lit a lighter huffing gas) that got Farked. Fortunately;-)
Nathan said on 10/17/06 @ 08:28 PM: Now if someone would just run a national story on how outrageous the Central Oregon home market is.... Oh wait! they already did. :(
Harry Blazer said on 10/18/06 @ 08:53 PM: Yo Barney, why don't you post a story about how Chicago, Paul Simon and Toto are at the "height of their creativity" and "as good as ever" in mid-2006. That would be news to anyone I know, and pretty good fodder for snarky internet chatrooms...