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Post number 4869

Cobbler — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 02:40:00 -0800

Eminem dead. Or not, as they case may be...

By: palnatoke

palnatoke — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 03:17:33 -0800

A bit too morbid. It was OK with the Gore steals Ryder Truck story - nobody got hurt and it was just too absurd.

By: ookamaka

ookamaka — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 03:35:40 -0800

Haha! Too awesome! A great social hack if I ever saw one.

By: pnevares

pnevares — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 04:02:57 -0800

It was interesting until I realized that all three sources, Ananova, Mr. Showbiz, and MTV News were faked. I thought one of them actually ran the story...semmed like less of a hack now. :)

By: tiaka

tiaka — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 06:15:34 -0800

Taking joy in someone's death. Ohh, that's great. Sure we all hate the guy, but, awesome?

By: bkdelong

bkdelong — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 06:16:53 -0800

Attrition.org has been getting stories like this all weekend including one on CNN about a Bill Gates sexual scandal and Napster's Shawn Fanning being named President.

By: bakiwop

bakiwop — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:17:55 -0800

From the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, "Will the real Slim Shady please shut up?"

By: tj

tj — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 08:47:27 -0800

tiaka.. I believe pnevares was referrring to what actually happened w/ the hack, not the thought that he was dead... sheesh!

By: Leonard

Leonard — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:15:50 -0800

87 Thousand hits? Christ, we couldn't get that many if we actually killed eminem ourselves.

By: norm

norm — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:19:44 -0800

At the rate I'm going, I'll get 87,000 hits by (calculating) 2238. Yee haw! Seriously, anyone who thinks webloggers are all liberal and PC should follow some of the links on that page. Some serious assholes (sample quote: THEN..the homos want to go & call Eminem a whiny bitch.) Big time. (Sample quote: Do you know what you have to do to get posting rights here? Samn: The rule for Robotskull is you have to have a dick or show your boobies. )

By: youhas

youhas — Thu, 21 Dec 2000 00:17:24 -0800

Such is the case with "E/N" webloggers - typically male and in their late teens, with a largish chunk of them being right-wing types. Comes with the demographics, I guess. ...'course, the mantra of "offensiveness == more hits" doesn't hinder their motivation any, either.

By: norm

norm — Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:40:23 -0800

I don't even know what an E/N weblogger is. I saw that on a couple of sites. Define?

By: cCranium

cCranium — Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:16:55 -0800

It means Everything/Nothing. From what I understand, it comes from the stileproject (caution: porn, dead people, probably a no-no at work) about page, which reads something along the lines of... "What is this page about? Everything... Nothing..."

By: youhas

youhas — Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:31:20 -0800

E/N: Everything/Nothing. Sort of a blog/journal hybrid that arose independently of mainstream weblogs. (Has its founding roots in a gaming community of late '98, of all places.) Mostly run by males aged 15-24. Sites typically have a "staff" of multiple members contributing posts. Oftentimes, a desire for "hits at all costs" leads E/Nners to be offensive, combattive, and (at extremes) posting pornography and "shock value" pics galore.