I thought it might be fun to take a look at where CityPages’ Blotter stories originate. To do this, I mined through 3 months of CityPages Blotter stories that were later dugg on Digg.com and logged who the Blotter was riffing off (that’s riFFing): The blue slice represents original work. These are often multi-page slide [...]
Ryan asked the following question in the comments of my previous post about Emily Kaiser’s return to Digg.com: That graph represents her diggs of VVM stories exclusively? That’s a fair question. What if, upon Emily’s return to Digg, she started using Digg for something other than pimping VVM stories? Just for Ryan, I pulled the [...]
Back on Feb 5th, I posted a story about how Village Voice Media’s various online properties work together to cross-promote each other’s stories on Digg. That happened to be the same day that CityPages’ Emily Kaiser stopped using Digg. At least that was the short-term case. Two months later, she Dugg two things, took another [...]
This is interesting. CityPages is complaining about a publication, One Nation News, lifting stories from CityPages (A-List, specifically) then putting their own name on it. Minneapolis/st. Paul – City Pages – The Blotter – One Nation News: All the plagiarism fit to copy and paste Last Sunday, I received a concerned email from a longtime [...]
Some state attorney generals bucking for a promotion have been attacking a website, Craigslist, that allows people to advertise items and services they sell for free. Apparently, that’s okay unless the thing the seller wants to sell is their own body. Craigslist has caved to some of the AGs demands, including shutting down their notorious [...]
File this under, “you simply can’t make this stuff up.” CityPages and LikeMe.net are now sending out emails that tell users “What’s Hot” around town. As I’ve explained before, the results provided by LikeMe.net are highly biased since they’re generated by the ad sales department at CityPages. However, they’re even more biased than I previously [...]
CityPages got around to updating their staff directory on Friday night. Was it black Friday at CityPages, or did they simply get around to updating their outdated roster? Some of the names removed have been gone from the paper for quite some time such as cheap eats food writer Jim Norton who was shown the [...]
As I mentioned on Tuesday, CityPages Sales Operations Manager, (EmilyN), Emily Neumann actually copy/paste plagiarized one of the paragraphs of her fake review directly from JD Hoyt’s website. Since then, in a hysterically offensive twist, it appears that Emily or someone else at CityPages / Village Voice Media decided to clean up that mess. How [...]
CityPages.com has integrated a relatively new feature called LikeMe where, as the name implies, they attempt to create venue recommendations for places to eat, drink, and do things based on what people “LikeMe” do. In theory, it’s a great idea for a restaurant review website or website feature. However, here are a few things you [...]
My posts regarding CityPages and Village Voice Media have been darn popular with everyone other than CityPages employees. So popular, in fact, that while talking to a friend tonight, they suggested, “Why not charge for them?” Sure, beer was involved in this conversation, so I know they were on something, but I think they may [...]
