I dislike internet video news and entertainment. It takes too long and forces me to accept sequentially the whole package. I won’t do it, except for Youtube searches for video evidence or amazing shorts of plane crashes etc

I won’t subscribe to WSJ or NYT because I am paying for a lot of stuff I do not want to susidize.

I would pay Drudge a dollar a month if I had to for as long as he doesn’t change but I would resent it and probably end up a hermit

Not really, I would find a blog of people who like to converse and hang out sharing info

I had a gift subscription to the Rush site but never accessed it. Rush is better in voice where he is tops

Hottair is a great site because of the skilled editing and carefully commentary by the hosts who do not pretend to agree with me on everything unlike the RNCC type blogs which stink. The association with MM makes all the difference because she is a warrior I admire

The problem is money has dried up and money on ads is a combo of charity, propping up ideology, and wishful thinking. When money returns to the market, the market will be able to put ads on their ideologies again

Pajamas might as well merge with Obama radio because they are going into a dark deep lonely cave

HotAir is an excellent sifter and analyzer of news, but it’s been hardly promoted. I’m not in to PJTV, I’m not going to bog myself down with a video library. I’m mostly scanning for info but I do love the occasional interaction with Ed on TEMS. So put on more blog ads and I will click on them, put on books and I will buy one, sell raffle tickets for a dinner with Ed, or Allah or Michelle and I will buy a stack.
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And don’t stop there, do things to create buzz for HotAir: convince celebrities to let you auction off a dinner or golf with them (like Rush or Hugh or Mary Katherine Ham); create HotAir awards for the best diligence/creativeness/integrity/technology in blogging (of course Ed will have to remove himself as a nominee); publish books and go on book tours on issues of the day like global warming, immigration, post-racialism, the pitfalls of big government, swaying an electorate; use TEMS as a model to ustream live debates on hot topics [a Bill Kristol/Matt Damon debate would be great -- especially if you hired an actor to play the role of Matt Damon]; and if you do nothing else PLEEEEEEEEEASE hold a HotAir telethon to raise money to pay for President Obama’s tropical heating in the Oval Office.

Mark30339 on February 1, 2009 at 4:16 PM

Now see, these are ALL good ideas, but if we have learned anything it’s that most bloggers are LAZY. The original idea of BLOGS was so that the common man could have a voice, be heard. Now we have stupid folks at PJM that think thier TV crap is gonna work… DEAD IN 3 MONYHS at best! Blogs shold NEVER be paid for, bloggers should be doing ti because they have something worth saying, convictions, values, core principals… That’s what people want, someone who is HONEST, not a smart-ass in a epeen contest! Here at HA it is my “thing” is bigger then your “thing”. It’s no longer values… principals… morals and core message… Some businesses need to go under, like the Auto industry, killing off the unions and thugs and getting lean and mean… Bloggers too, killing off the one who have zero message, no core, no purspose, no soul… The good will survive, the crappy will get wiped…

Poptech on February 1, 2009 at 2:52 AM

I’m not going to quote this mostly illiterate drivel, as it was written at 3am, and probably under the influence, as are my 3am comments.

My first thoughts on this went to the Allah-Rush-Palin-commenters brawl du jour, and Allah’s acetone-clear logic eventually showed me that we’re on the opposite sides of the same coin. He gets slaughtered every time he disagrees with Rush or Palin because he puts it, they are conservative sacred cows and he doesn’t appreciate that much.

I do, and take great umbrage at my perception of his repeated nitpicking with these two especially, when he probably doesn’t find much to actually disagree with, except of course his fetish for homosexual marriage. It was almost certainly bad form on my part to bring up the likelihood of Rush’s audience increasing to an absurd 25 or 30 million daily listeners, in a post where Allah is announcing their possible demise.

Sorry, AP. I could have done better.

As for you, sir, your sanctimonious, melodramatic whine about thrifty libertarianism and “the power of [your] arguments overwhelming” your erstwhile opponents is very impressive, indeed. It would seem that the only one overwhelmed by your literary skill is you.

AYNBLAND on February 1, 2009 at 12:13 PM

+1

I blog for free. All you need is a series of tubes, fingers, and a PC.

101. Terrye:

Joe:

I like Jeff at PW, but when was he not having a fit about something? It is his default. In fact he has been threatening to quit forever.

Feb 1, 2009 – 1:03 pm [Reader Comment at Roger Simon's PJM Explaination]

Roger Simon of Pajamas Media tells Hot Air, Protein Wisdom and Ace to go get jobs, ya bums!

“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.” Robert Heinlein

I probably wouldn’t do a $99.99 a year subscription, but I would be inclined to toss a $20 here and $20 there.

lol I’ve seen your name used as an attack here.

Ars Moriendi on February 1, 2009 at 12:25 PM

Only in self defense as I am being brutalized by a cudaphile.

On that note, I knew in the back of my mind that Sending Joe the Plumber to Israel was a cheap media act to try to get people to buy into PJTV.

I curious – how much did JTP get paid for the media stunt?

Seriously, the person I know who tried to advertise was treated like crap so that person spent the companies monies on another advertiser and it has paid off handsomely.

IMAO!