Jim at Snooze Button Dreams has a great blog and not just because he links to me a lot. He's almost like a brother to me, even though we don't have the same parents and that I already have a brother and that I've never met him. OK, so we're not such a close family. But he's co-anchor of Memeblog so it's close enough.
Nevertheless I hereby announce a world-first:
Hong Kong - Simon of the famous blog Simon World has again set the pace by announcing a brave and daring new venture. In a packed press conference he announced he is launching a takeover bid for the Snooze Button Dreams blog. "He gets more readers, he's had an Instalanche," said Simon.
The offer is a whopping 1.3 Simon World posts per 1 SBD post. Simon declared that he is aiming for nothing less than 100% control of his target. "I see great synergies between our two sites. Working in two opposite time zones, together we can create the world's best 24 hour slice-of-life with a sprinkle of politics blog. With my proven management skills and ability to cut costs while growing businesses, this is a win-win situation."
When asked about potential job cuts, Simon responded "Look, I won't lie. In any merger there are areas of overlap the result in lost jobs. It is not something I look forward to. However we will work hard to find other opportunities within the company and only resort to firing incompetent hacks and deadwood as a last resort."
Commenting on the move, Simon's Mum said, "What's he doing now?" Mrs M, an analyst, said "Great, now he can spend even more time on the friggin' website." Glenn Reynolds added "I see a lot of benefits from this move. It could well result in this new blog joining my roll or even getting a link."
Under International Blogging Law, the target blog has 7 days to respond to the offer. Section 17.21.a states "Anything goes", usually interpreted by blog lawyers as meaning there are no rules and making their clients wonder why there are so many other rules and sections.
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Intriguing. What would this unholy union be called?
posted by: Jim on 06.05.04 at 04:56 AM [permalink]
And I've had multiple Instalanches. Just setting the facts straight here.
posted by: Jim on 06.05.04 at 08:39 AM [permalink]
Baby, I have been trying to beat Jim at this blogging game for ages now.
I still haven't won.
I think it's related to his Sold-My-Soul-To-The-Devil-For-Success-At-Blogging scheme. It's beating me, mostly since I sold mine to the devil for a Happy Meal when I was nine.
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