The pond regards as one of its greatest Sunday achievements the driving of the Devine behind a paywall, wherein her bile can only be accessed by mug punters willing and silly enough to pay for it …
Perhaps the pond's second greatest Sunday achievement is to drive petulant Peta behind a paywall, whereby her hatred of Malware can only be accessed by mug punters willing and silly enough to pay for it …
O.h and it might be a tad hard to access a story about love nests … what a loss …
Now the pond can already hear the cries of 'nonsense' and the shouts of hubris … there being absolutely no evidence whatsoever that the reptiles embarked on their iron digital curtain paywall strategy as a result of the pond's activities …
Indeed, there's a lot of alternative evidence that in reality the failed business model is starting to bite hard, and the reptiles are trying everything and anything to generate some coin, going in the completely opposite direction to the Graudian …
Okay, all that said and done, the pond now faces another challenge.
Getting the Bolter behind the same paywall that contains the Devine, petulant Peta and Akker Dakker …
After all, reading the Bolter is just like reading petulant Peta … it's a fierce contest between the two as to who hates Malware more …
The Bolter is so full of fear and loathing that he'll even trot out former Chairman Rudd as evidence, though naturally it's borrowed from another source …
Take that petulant Peta …
Now it's true that the Bolter links back to a lizard Oz piece written by the former chairman, and it's tucked behind the paywall, and this might be construed as consciousness-raising, and a cunning ploy in the business model, but truth to tell, that's a hefty chunk of former Chairman Rudd, and there's really not much need to head off to the source to get the rest of it …
Indeed, the Bolter does exactly what the pond shamelessly does … steal chunks of other people's texts and fling them together in a righteous stew and claim the thoughts as his own.
Surely there's no room for this sort of behaviour at News Corp? Surely this belongs behind a paywall?
Is anyone at the HUN home? Are they aware of what the Bolter gets up to? Are they worried how the Bolter completely undercuts the business model?
That's the Bolter channelling Peta …
And now for the gobbets from everyone else … some of which have also turned up on the pond ...
Nattering Ned … the hatcher of fish, and who else?
There's a couple more to follow, and naturally, in the process and in the manner of petulant Peta, the Bolter slips in a kind word for the onion muncher.
Which raises the dangerous question … if all the parrots sing from the same song sheet, why pay to see the ones inside the zoo, when there's a parrot running free and wild?
This has got to stop. The reptiles must put an end to it, or at least put the Bolter's blog behind the paywall.
At the moment the pond can just drop by the Bolter and catch up on all sorts of conspiracies … even ones it thought it had ignored …like Dame Groan … and poor old Terry ...
Outrageous. Not just Dame Groan, but the McCrannster too! And him arguing fiercely for the need to keep the pesky, difficult, totally useless Dutch out of the country!
The pond is fully aware of the gravity of what the pond is proposing.
It's good and right and proper and just that the Bolter's own pieces are behind the paywall, but this bower bird cherry picking also has to stop.
Blogging is now an ancient, meaningless activity, a hang over from the early days of the full to overflowing inter tubes.
Little Timmie Bleagh and the Bolter are amongst the few at News Corp keeping on with it, and now is the time for it to stop, especially when the Bolter is in the habit of ladling out free reptile wares …
There's a difference between a little taster of salmon at the fish markets, and slicing off large chunks … it just invites the homeless in for a feast.
Surely the Bolter no longer needs the stress. Not only is he a world-famous climate scientist, he's an astonishing success on pay television, with an audience of at least 50,000 … no small achievement in a country of some 24 million …
This might mean the end of the pond too, but that's a small price to pay … after all, there's another price to pay for the feral animals still allowed out into the wild, breaking the pay wall and making the whole exercise pointless …
... not least a curdling of the milk …
Wau. Dame Groan and Terry McRandy both on the same page: the left and right hands of eco-cognitive darkness. And a Ha(r)tcher too !
ReplyDeleteBut Andy Dolt isn't totally behind a firewall, DP. I can get to read him - and the Petty Pet too - in the dead-tree edition of the Hairoiled Scum that my lieu de cafe provides at no extra charge. Now that's a great business plan, isn't it.
PS: I really only pick it up because the Scum is re-running Calvin and Hobbes - and still running Garfield, Hagar the Horrible and The Phantom ... and an appalling 'modernised' version of Ginger Meggs.
Well one thing the Bolter, as a world-class climate scientist, knows all about is cherry-picking, so its good to see a world-class economist like Terry learning from his example.
ReplyDeleteOf course, if you choose almost any period other than 2009, Australia's GDP per capita is substantially higher than Japan's. Since 2008, for example, Australia's GDP per capita has grown nearly twice as fast. The difference of course, is that Japan's economy was a trainwreck for a year after the GFC, and ours was not, so 2009 represents an artificially low starting point for Japan. But then, the Bolter has been claiming "no warming since 1998" using the same trick.
Well played, Andrew...*golf clap*...you really know how to harvest those P. avium drupes.
I don't care whether Bolt is paywalled or not, but could someone get him a competent sub-editor?
ReplyDeleteWhat, so he can pretend he isn't a complete Dolt ? Nah, his fractured, tortured prose is "the real thing". Besides, all the subbies live in NZ now, and that's the best you can get.
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