Comments on: Secret Merger Talks Between Technorati And b5media Blow Up

By: anon to anon

anon to anon — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:45:10 +0000

I’m sure they would have better editors, or at least more dedicated editors, if they would pay them more than the equivalent of minimum wage for their effort. Of course, the bloggers get paid at an even worse rate for their labour.

By: Andy Wong

Andy Wong — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:20:24 +0000

Strange. B5Media.com looks like a spam site. It has much less weight than Technorati. How come they merge? Did Technorati want to acquire B5Media with stock option only?

By: Martin Neumann

Martin Neumann — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:50:37 +0000

HeHe, Matt Craven - you sure know how to sniff out a story - man, if I was still at TBH I’d be all over this angle.

By: B5 Media CEO Decries ‘90 Percent False’ Tech Crunch Report | Pro Blogging News

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:02:10 +0000

[...] had considered merging with troubled blog search engine Technorati. Wright said Friday’s Tech Crunch post “Secret Merger Talks Between Technorati and b5Media Blow Up” is “90 percent [...]

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Technorati とb5mediaの極秘の経営統合話が吹き飛ぶ — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:46:08 +0000

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By: Buny

Buny — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:36:47 +0000

anon

you might as well quit blogging altogether and getting paid for your efforts somewhere else then.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:56:44 +0000

“I wish you good luck in kissing yourself.”

Great way to end it. And as far as “passion for blogging”, screw that. I have a passion for getting paid for my efforts without all the bullshit.

Have a nice day and good luck.

By: Buny

Buny — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:44:51 +0000

anon

If you think it’s a sweat shop, u might as well quit, obviously u don’t have the passion for blogging, not even for yourself. I have been in b5 for 2 years and b5 is still the best blog network around.

I wish you good luck in kissing yourself.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:58:20 +0000

It’s “brainless” to have an opinion, Buny? You’re kidding, right? Oh, I forgot - we’re not supposed to have anything negative or critical to say about b5, because god forbid anything gets actually fixed around there. Just keep kissing up to the upper management and slave away in the blog sweat factory, Buny…..one day you’ll see what I mean.

By: Buny

Buny — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:38:05 +0000

As another b5 blogger, I don’t know if you are the real deal. b5 bloggers do not make such *brainless* comments.

By: Matt Craven

Matt Craven — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:34:27 +0000

Anon - contact me at matt at bryghtpath dot com if you could - I have some followup questions for a story we’re running tomorrow.

Thanks!
m

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:06:49 +0000

well anon, since you’re unhappy, sign up at BuySellAds.com

By: StartupNorth » Blog Archive » b5media + Technorati merger talks over?

StartupNorth » Blog Archive » b5media + Technorati merger talks over? — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:45:31 +0000

[...] This morning a slide from a PowerPoint deck outlining a potential merger between JLA-backed blog network b5media and blog search engine Technorati was leaked. Techcrunch says that the deal has been called off. [...]

By: anon

anon — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:05:36 +0000

Speaking as a b5 blogger (no, I won’t say who I am), I can say that most of our money is spent sending Jeremy Wright to every conference he can possibly sign up for. It would be better spent designing blog templates that don’t look like 1995, supporting bloggers with better editors, and and basically giving more support to the top blogs, rather than constantly bringing in more half-ass blogs on super-niche topics.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:01:12 +0000

I went to a b5media site blog once and it has zero soul or content on it?

Is it really just a dump for adsense spam?

By: Lena West

Lena West — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:58:45 +0000

I just love it when my intuition is right. I saw the handwriting on the wall about b5 last year.

Seriously, it’s a shame because they have some good people working there. Just a bit challenged at the moment…as can happen to us all.

*sigh* Poor Jeremy.

By: Blog Network Watch » b5media, Technorati Merger Falls Through

Blog Network Watch » b5media, Technorati Merger Falls Through — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:57:10 +0000

[...] merger talks between blog network giant b5media and Technorati fizzled out recently, TechCrunch reports: Blog search engine Technorati was days away from merging with blog network b5media when [...]

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:25:18 +0000

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although I know where the story came from and had first call on it, I handed it to Erick because of the disclosure issue, if anything I couldn’t have been more ethical about (in not writing it up…others wouldn’t have handed it off) so again I don’t see why disclosure was required. Besides, if I had a final influence on this post it wouldn’t be slanted towards b5, trust me

By: Report: B5 Media-Technorati Merger Talks Failed | Pro Blogging News

Report: B5 Media-Technorati Merger Talks Failed | Pro Blogging News — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:10:22 +0000

[...] a wakeup call….” - B5 Media CEO Jeremy Wright on Twitter, the day of a TechCrunch report of failed merger talks between the Canadian blog network and blog search company [...]

By: F Valleywag

F Valleywag — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:58:45 +0000

Todd is completely right. They are network of miserable no traffic blogs. The only stars are Problogger and Copyblogger and (amazingly) they don’t own either of those sites.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:13:39 +0000

@simon, yeah, problogger is sweet. Not trying to get into a pissing match, but that’s 1 of 360

By: Simon Koldyk

Simon Koldyk — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:54:51 +0000

@Todd, I’m guessing that’s what this partnership was trying to do. Although I think they understand that there is enough competition in the blogging selling market already. On blog quality ever head of ProBlogger.net?

By: Shane Coffey

Shane Coffey — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:49:23 +0000

Sorry Duncan not trying to ruffle any feathers. Your past dealings was probably not worth mentioning.

@Andy Merritt: Of course I know who wrote the story! My point behind my comment is that Techcrunch is probably the best bite/blog on the internet and they always seem to disclose any percieved conflicts of interest. Take for example when they do stories on Federated Media they always disclose their relationship with Federated. I basically just trying to point out something either a) Eric (the writer) did not know or b) something they (Techcrunch) forgot to put in the post. Duncan is a really good person who found some stories for me a long time ago when I started out blogging way back when he owned the BlogHerald. So any no way shape or form am I trying to make Duncan, Michael, Eric or any other Techcrunch personnel look bad.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:27:57 +0000

@simon, gotcha, didn’t realize they own all of those blogs. Why don’t they sell for other bloggers too?

@dotw, indeed number of sites doesn’t matter. When I checked out a bunch of their sites they were filled with adsense, didn’t seem to get too much traffic and seemed crappy in general.

let the flames come my way for trashing their blogs… maybe I just happened to click on all the wrong ones

By: Robyn Tippins

Robyn Tippins — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:03:23 +0000

@jenkins, was probably leaked from b5’s side, since the discussion at the end of the article came from them ‘according to b5′. It’s routine for one company to send pwrpoints to another company detailing the loveliness of their marriage during acquisition talks.