Apparently the blog community is starved for money, corporate approval, and,goddamn it, the camwhores want better deals from Amazon. Let’s not forget the demographics, the wunnerful, wunnerful demographics. In fact, maybe we should all focus on doing a little more public relations. New posts on Team Murder: “Microsoft is pretty O.K,” and “Pop up windows: Can’t we all just get along?” I’m not buying or selling.

One of the more interesting angles proposed in the proposal (am I a wordsmith or what?) concerns tracking the influence of weblogging. On what? Search engine placement? News redundancy? The intrinsic drive in human nature to come up with really l33t mouseovers? Come on. The sad truth is that all that really separates the more referenced blogs from the “real news” is corporate backing and influence with the influence part growing a little more nebulous all the time. Sure there are numerous subcategorizations between say the folks who want to “become the media” (what an unfortunate, unfortunate slogan) and those who want to share their pathetic lives in torturous detail but the lack of corporate sparkle and oomph are the real delimiters here.

I also can’t seem to stop chuckling about the proposal for a spokesperson for the foundation. What a fabulous idea. What we really need is a mouthpiece for people who run crappy little sites scattered all over the web. We need a role model for webloggers. Charlton Heston? Wil Weaton? This idea is so craprific that you have to wonder if this is some kind of prank that we’re all going to get busted for buying into instead of the residual damage from some introductory level marketing class. Come on, really?

Man, I have to go to work. If only there was some foundation to insure that I received the proper amount of kickdown from Microsoft I could just sit here and talk shit all day and Charlton Heston would smack down anyone who tried to stop me. God, what was I thinking?

O.K. So maybe I had a little energy.

Hey, this advertising hack thinks that blogs are the next big advertising opportunity. Yep. Just like pop up ads and spam.