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Post number 621

jason — Sat, 29 Jan 2000 03:00:39 -0800

The article in this week's ALA about the allure of blue and green on the web should not concern nor cause alarm among the citizens of MetaFilter. MetaFilter is not in league with any corporate entity in a conspiracy to make a profit off your opinions. There are no attempts of gaining your trust with the hidden motive of making you more susceptible to efforts to sell you product here at MetaFilter. Please continue reading. That is all. [heads up from Fairvue]

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 29 Jan 2000 03:15:02 -0800

I know, I know, this is a blue and green site, the money is just rolling in because of that... Here's some background trivia for you: Grant, the guy with the swirls page, is a longtime contributor to MetaFilter, and actually debuted the swirl logo page here on November 17 of last year. He only had 3 or 4 swirls then. I showed him alice's swoosh page in a comment, which he then linked off the swirl page. I suppose that's how the ALA author found the swoosh pages. Another weird thing is that I sent a URL of a "Great Day in Harlem" to a bunch of people last week, telling them about how it's the best jazz film I'd ever seen (and I wanted to plan a similar photograph with a bunch of web folks). The author of the ALA piece happens to be the guy that runs that server. It's a small web after all....

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:34:53 -0800

metafilter is also not trying to amass a privately owned large Q&A database containing the combined intellectual acumen of the whole internet.

By: dangerman

dangerman — Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:51:52 -0800

that looks familiar Jessamyn

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 29 Jan 2000 18:17:29 -0800

sure does, huh? that's what I get for being brand new and setting my preferences for three days... [and I linked it on librarian.net on 1/13!]

By: brig

brig — Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:38:01 -0800

with all the money rolling into metafilter, ev must be trying to cash in too.