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Comments on: The blogosphere's Napoleon

Tech bloggers are all lathered up about Mike Arrington's call for someone, perhaps him, to band together uberbloggers to "crush" CNET...and me.

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by tomforemski March 19, 2008 5:05 PM PDT
A roll up strategy is the obvious thing to do. But good luck trying. They are all personality driven and ego driven. I can't see GigaOm working for Arrington or vice versa, and the same applies to every other high profile "blog" site. You can roll up companies in a sector, you can't roll up "personalities."
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by tomforemski March 19, 2008 5:07 PM PDT
PS: Dan Farber already did the roll up. ZDnet's blogger network has been very successful for Cnet!
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by dahowlett March 19, 2008 5:37 PM PDT
What @tomforemski said but more: what @dan said: "getting after the important stories" and not after bubbley eyeballs that will be gone in a heartbeat.
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by automatt March 19, 2008 10:28 PM PDT
Oh that photo is priceless.
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