Sounds More Like The Million Dollar Headache
from the good-and-bad-attention dept
We avoided all the stories about the "Million Dollar Homepage" because it was obviously one of those internet fads that people will joke about in a few years. Alex Tew deserves credit for thinking up the idea and doing it first, but the amount of copycats is getting pretty silly. This is the type of idea that works for the first person to come up with it and that's about it. So, to the copycat sites who keep submitting it to us, no, we don't care that you're the first such site in Alberta, Canada or that you're doing it for some charity we've never heard of. We didn't post the original and we really aren't going to post the copycats. However, since Tew's success with the project, it appears that he's been getting attention from the wrong sorts of folks. A bunch of denial of service extortionists took time out from hassling porn and gambling sites, and instead took down the million dollar homepage while demanding cash to get it back up. Of course, if Tew doesn't pay the extortionists, he may have to pay back some of his advertisers, as one of them is threatening a lawsuit because of the site's downtime, which didn't allow their ad (the final one, bought to great fanfare in an eBay auction) didn't go up immediately. It's looking like the "easy money" of the million dollar home page has some strings attached to it.
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Sounds like this guy made a MILLION DOLLARS
Also, any site could be attacked and have to deal with lawsuits over lost ad space / time. Seems the most reasonable thing to do would be to grant extra time to the advertiser or to just give some of the money back. Maybe 1% of the payments? Something like that, probably more. Not that hard to solve.
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Re: Sounds like this guy made a MILLION DOLLARS
Doug
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"Million Dollar Homepage"
I have NO idea what you are talking about.
Your account of this matter comment assumes that the reader is fully aware of the issue to which you are referring. I am not.
You make essentailly no effort to provide adequate background to a reader unfamiliarwith this issue; for such a reader (again, I among them, although I am sure that my cohort is vast), your comments amount to nonsense (to be blunt).
I would HIGHLY advise that you henceforth follow simple, well-established rules of journalism, and refrain from posting such "inner circle/in the know" material.
Take care,
Matt
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Your comment seems like a generic response to be placed on many different sites, much like a Fark cliche.
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never heard of it either
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Re: Million Dollar Home Page
This isn't AP or Reuters. It's geared towards technoly-aware people. It would seem you may not be one of them.
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Million Dollar Home Page
I am a very busy and prominent person, and really have much bigger and pressing things to worry about than matters such asthese.
(But I will take a bit of time to respond here.)
So no, I do not have the time to "Google search" issues like these.
Judging from the various respones to my comment, I infer that the typical reader of this site is a mid-level "techie", which is fine, but perhaps unfortunate, in the larger scheme of things. Also, the etiquette here is shocklingly nonexistent, which is simply not the way things are done in the major leagues.
I certainly can glean that very few of you know at all how to write well, which strongly corroborates my inference re: your status in the business world.
Again, take care.
Matt
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Re: Million Dollar Home Page
He's already commented on the reason in the article as to why there is no prior reference to the Million Dollar Homepage. I hope you realise that this site isn't around to provide generic, unbiased articles on a wide variety of news topics; its a tech blog for those of us who actually understand what he's going on about. If you have no idea what he's talking about in the articles, then you're browsing the wrong part of the web.
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You must be in management.
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p.s. I was just lost on this story only.
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Matt
Vocabulary and/or grammar doesn't necessarily signify a position in society or the business world.
If that was the case, I'd own a Bentley.
This is NOT about utilizing what you learned in AP English classes. It's a place for people to discuss articles that Techdirt posts (which are generally summaries of articles posted elsewhere).
It is the equivalent of sitting around and bullsh*tting with your friends. If you worry about your vocabulary and grammar when your just shooting the sh*t with your friends, well then...there is no hope for you.
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I agree that the original post was a bit vague, but the following comments helped clarify. I didn't know what "The Million Dollar Homepage" was, and I spend everyday on the internet. Somethings will just happen to get by either you didn't find the headline interesting or you were busy taking a crap when it came out. Does it really matter? No. My point is, you all (the school girls) need to get off your high horses and shut the fuck up. I'm sure you don't know everything, so why do you expect someone else too?
And if you bitch about my typing/grammar, I couldn't give a rip.
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google told me.
I now understand the article.
I wonder if cnn expects you
to use google to keep up?
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Seriously, no wonder this world is so full of retards. Everyone wants their information spoon-fed to them.
To write such an eloquent reply, you must be at least reasonably educated (or really good with a thesaurus) so I am sure it's not too difficult for you to type "Million Dollar Homepage" into Google/Yahoo/MSN/Slashdot/et. al.... or are you just bitchy because your not part of the "inner circle"?
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Plus you're only bitching about people bitching. Get a life.
It was a suggestion to the author and you people had to make him feel like he's the dumbest motherfucker out there. If that is what it takes to be in your stupid "inner circle" than I don't want to be in it.
I don't know what is the deal with these know it all people today. Not only do they pretend they know it all but they make other people feel retarded when they don't know.
I'm also pretty sure the guy knows how to make a google search. It was just a suggestion to the author.
get a life :)
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"Inner Circle"
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No Subject Given
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No, you only think you are 'busy and prominent'.
If you were TRULY 'busy' and actually 'prominent', you would have had one of your paid staff (or unpaid student flunky) figure out what the 'million dollar homepage' was, and brief you.
Instead, you are here. Whining.
Go be 'pressing things' elsewhere.
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Another good link
This doesn't look or work as good since SP2 and pop-up blocking. But it's another funny site to sent noobs to.
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Million Dollar Path -
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Also to the trumped up dude (cant be bothered to look up the post), this is a techie news site, so you are expected to be a techie to read/understand what its on about, further we techie people expect spelling and grammar checkers to go over everything we type, as this does not happen when we click submit it confuses us, and we cant go back and edit our comments anyway.
LOOK AT IT THIS WAY THOUGH. AT LEAST WE DONT TYPE IN ALL UPPERCASE LIKE YOUR AVERAGE AOL USER. LOL.
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refreshing twist
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Indirect value for advertisers
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Russian girl sells her body on internet....
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