1.13.2010

Lijit VS. P.U.B. (Publishers Union of Bloggers) NO CONTENT DAY? Yeah @Lijit Where's my Stinkin' $5 you owe me?


"What's in your Widget?" ®

NO CONTENT DAY: 
APRIL 15, 2010
You're all on me and Barney Moran's Shitlist until I get my stinkin' $5!  And even though it might be impossible for me to 'Protest' on April 15 by NOT PRODUCING CONTENT: if it's the LAST THING I DO, I'LL THINK OF ANOTHER WAY TO STOP YOU AND APTURE FROM LINING YOUR BLOGKETS WITH MY BLOGCASH.  I MAY JUST COME UP WITH SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE PRACTICAL THAN OL' BARNEY OVER AT THE PUB.  SO WATCH OUT ON TAX DAY, BECAUSE UNLESS I'M COUNTING 5 CRISP DOLLAR BILLS, YOU WILL BE COUNTING THE DAYS LEFT AT CLUB FED OR WHATEVER THEY HAVE IN CANADA, WHERE I THINK YOU'RE LOCATED.  AND EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE THE BEST CUSTOMER SUPPORT TEAM IN THE BLOGOSPHERE, AND SHOULD REALLY EXPLAIN WHAT THAT IS TO ANDREW MACHADO AND TRISTAN WHATHISNAME @APTURE, ME AND BARNEY HAVE MORE THAN NOT BLOGGING UP OUR COLLECTIVE SLEEVES FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES TO GET OUR FIVE BUCKS OR WHATEVER MONEY IS CALLED IN CANADA. AND  "Todd Vernon" YOU MAY BE ABLE TO SHUT BARNEY UP WITH BRIBERY, BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE MORE TO STOP ME FROM BLOGGING.  AND UNLESS YOU HAPPEN TO BE A PRETTY DAMN GOOD CANADIAN PSYCHIATRIST WHOSE SPECIALTY IS INTERNET HOARDING AND ADDICTION, GOOD LUCK!

Sunday, July 13, 2008 9:19 AM

From:

"Todd Vernon"

To:

barneymoran@yahoo.com

Barney, what makes you stop being an asshole ? Your endgame is money so tell me how much.



-t



Todd Vernon

CEO


lijit networks, inc.
1050 Walnut

Suite 340 Boulder, CO 80302
303.493.5490 ext 498 direct
303.493.5495 fax
www.lijit.com


Unsolicited email from Lijit to P.U.B., dated Sunday, July 13th, 9:19am.

"What's in your Widget?" ®






Lijit, Blogger, Google, Search, Search Engines, Google Search, SEO, Crime, Prison, Rape, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Johnny Cash, Beware of the Blog, Literal Blogging, Apture,



Take another big step towards transparency from the companies who profit from your blog writing by

NOT writing April 15, 2010!



Let companies like Lijit and Google know: you know they have not been transparent about what they make from our blogs; what % they share with us, the people creating the content they use and re-sell at great profit.



If you can’t keep your fingers from working on April 15th, 2010, then ask companies like Lijit, Google, or any other currently profiting from you blog this basic question:



What do you make from my work? What % are you sharing with me?



Your UNION, P.U.B., Publisher’s Union of Bloggers, has asked these simple questions from companies such as Lijit and Google, and they have either not answered or used personal attacks and threatened legal action against P.U.B. and its members.



Why? Google, Lijit, and other’s profiting from publishers plan on there being no power among independent, freethinking writers. 'They will never act as a group, never ask us to be transparent, we can pay them whatever we want, if anything'





Is your creative work worth asking this simple question?

Then ask it, April 15th, 2010, and tell your publishing peers to ask for it too.



Keep up the good work, fellow publishers,



Barney



Barney Moran

Founder, P.U.B.

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History:

TO: Google

press@google.com

email sent

650.930.3555

Voicemail sent 9:15pm EST from P.U.B.



FROM: P.U.B.



RE: Publisher’s Union inquiry concerning Lijit on Google’s Blogger Platform



October 18, 2009





Dear Google,



P.U.B., Publishers Union of Bloggers, requests information from Google for Publishers concerning Blogger’s use of Lijit search on the Blogger Platform to share with Blog Publishers who currently use Blogger, and potential publishers who may choose to use the Blogger platform:

Does Google have a unique contract with Lijit Networks?
If so, are the terms of this contract available to the public to review?
Will content culled by Lijit Networks from publishers using the Blogger Platform be held by the Chinese company CDNet, as other Lijit content is currently held? If not, what entity will hold this data?
What protections for publishers has Google put into place concerning Lijit’s use of publisher content?





Thank you,

Barney Moran, P.U.B., Publishers Union of Bloggers
History:

 


You’ve embedded a widget in your blog(s), or are considering it.



The blogger’s union, P.U.B. requires Widget makers keep Publishers informed so they can make long term decisions concerning their blogs. The current unfolding economic crises cries out to us: hard questions need to be answered before any widget gets our hard earned real estate, exposure, revenue, and use of our content on our Blogs.



I. The Plan?

What is the business plan?



Is this plan shared with Publishers who make the choice to install?



What is the Blog Publisher’s Role? Are individual Publishers privy to the same deal(s) Blog Publisher Networks get?



Is there Revenue involved?



If so, what does the Blog Publisher get?



II. Viability? What is the Widget companies long term viability?



How are they financed?

What are their long and short term goals?

Are they meeting them?





III. Functionality? What does the Widget promise to do?

Does it function correctly?

What is the % downtime of the Widget?

Is there any reimbursement for down time?



Is there a speed hit for using the Widget?





These are These are the questions P.U.B. is asking for Publishers. They are no different then the questions the S.E.C. should have

been asking

of fin asked financial institutions and any entitiy taking your money before the Wall Street Meltdown.

To not ask is to not think.
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