IS NO ONE PAYING ATTENTION!
David Krug, or Cowboy, or Liberal Cowboy, is the punk of the web. He will slam you then steal from you!
Click on the Blog Network Watch link above. It was redesigned and there are too many similairities to the b5media sites. Three contrasting colors, columns, with the darker contrasting color strip for the header. Cowboy tried to fake out b5media by not having the dark contrasting color highlight the post titles. Cowboy, you should be congratulated for trying to throw more people off by using hideous colors too.
Tip: If a color doesn’t sit next to another on the color wheel, they will not jive well.
This redesign was just rolled out and if you notice the post, “David Krug, Brain Trust of Content joins Blog Network Watch.”
Today David accuses Gothamist of exploiting it’s writers. In the same post he offers anyone reading the post a job. What do you see?
Are you looking for any specific genres?
At this time, we are looking for bloggers in the following areas:
- Personal finance
- Law enforcement
- Battlestar Galactica
- Blog Networks
- Real Estate & mortgages
- Gadgets
- Digital Cameras & Camcorders
- PCs & Macs
- Video Gaming
- Cell Phones
- Search Engines
- New Media
- Sports
- City centric writers: NYC, Chicago, LA, Denver, Boston, Minneapolis
- Adult Content Writers: Jokes, Parody, Erotica
Blogmedia and Erati are looking for writers interested in writing for a “city centric” blog. Hmmm, slam Gothamist then steal. Another obvious ripp-off, a writer for Battle Star Gallatica. Original, b5media, just happens to be the one who cultivated the tv cult blogs. AGAIN, slam, slam, slam, b5media then steal.
There are other smaller things as well. I challenged David in the comments at PSFK: Gothamist In Meltdown?
People I think should investigate:
just another opinion blog 
Posted by Wad : Noun A large sum of money: fortune, mint. Informal bundle, pretty penny, tidy sum. Slang pile. - That Was The Week That Was Jan 14th on January 14, 2006 at 6:38 pm
[…] Another interesting week in the blogosphere with the usual amount of bitching and mudslinging going on. […]
Posted by Blogger Idol :: There is only one blogosphere on January 15, 2006 at 11:12 am
[…] Can anyone understand what the hell Just Another Opinion Blog (which is a really lame name, by the way) is talking about? I think he accuses Blog Media of stealing their design from b5. Oh, no…wait, that’s not it. He’s accusing Cowboy of trash-talking Gothamist (which is a realy cool name, by the way) for exploiting their bloggers and then offering said bloggers a job. Oh nonono…that’s not it he’s accusing Cowboy of stealing bloggers. Yes – that’s it for sure! Oh crap – wait. It’s about how Cowboy slams b5 all the time! Or is it about the list of stuff JOAB thinks people should investigate? […]
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[…] Blog network Blog Media has threatened legal action against Adam Marquart of “just another opinion blog” over a post by Marquart accusing Blog Media of stealing its new design for the Blog Network Watch blog from b5media (the current owners of this blog). […]
Posted by Blogger Idol :: There is only one blogosphere on January 16, 2006 at 7:59 am
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Posted by Arun Kumar on January 16, 2006 at 6:20 pm
That 3 column layout is pretty common nowadays.. Look at all the Weblogs, Inc. blogs, and Yaro’s newly purchased http://smallbusinessbranding.typepad.com/ just to name a few. As far as colors go, there are a wide variety of different ones used on these blogs.
Posted by Raven on January 20, 2006 at 9:10 pm
They are both three column but they look different. I think you just want to point fingers because you don’t like cowboy.
Posted by Vince Chan on January 23, 2006 at 8:34 pm
Interesting article, just found this surfing around the trackbacks. I would say it’s more inspiration with a little perspiration added. Nothing wrong with the 2 sites. Did you spot similar code?
Posted by Blogger Idol :: There is only one blogosphere on February 12, 2006 at 12:24 pm
[…] Despondent with lack of response to previous post (even though comments not turned on) type new entry that breaks every libel and slander law in the country and then hide behind skateboard chattering ‘opinion, opinion. Look, the title of my blog has the word opinion in it therefore I’m safe’. […]