The perils of using guest bloggers
Inviting permanent guest bloggers onto your site certainly has its benefits. It enables you to produce an Instapundit-esque stream of posts, a ticker tape of limp snarky comments and context-lacking links.
But it also comes with its fair share of risks. Case in point: Protein Wisdom. For awhile it was buoyed by the shallow, inflated ego of its creator, Jeff Goldstein, until the knee-jerker decided he’d rope in a few playground Lollipop Guild members, affectionately known to site regulars as “Dan Collins” and “Karl.” Mr. Goldstein then hopped in the back seat, only resurfacing when impending complete and utter embarrassment and humiliation demanded it. Which was quite often.
As the Farkers like to say, hilarity ensued. The first noticeable case of LOL-inducement came when Dan Collins, overcome with with a bad case of the Schadenfreude, decided to use the blog and its sizable audience to deride and mock an ex girlfriend he stopped dating 25 years ago by linking to an article that referenced a rather unfortunate occurrence in her life.
But nothing compares to the grand finale, which we witnessed today. Due to the aforementioned context-lacking tendencies of blogging, I’m not sure of every detail of what actually took place, but James Wolcott has provided as good a time line as you’re going to get without meticulously combing through the archives and comments section of Protein Wisdom. And while I think that such reading would make for an apposite punishment for probation violators, I would never wish to inflict it on my own readers. So Wolcott will have to suffice.
Multiple authors certainly have their detriments. However, I have it on good authority that a blog must have multiple authors to get listed in Google News.
Stephen, I’ve heard that as well, though I don’t think that criteria alone will get a site listed, especially if you’re using a blogspot account.
Oh, do please inflict Wolcott on your readers, Simon. Both.
Hmmm. Have we met?
You seem to think you know much about me, whereas all I know about you is that you should probably change that facebook pic. Like, soon.
Though, hey: props for the balls it took to post it, what with that whole smoldering Zoolander thing you got going on.
Delicious!
The person who seems to have caused the problem, “thor,” is a known pseudonym for Dan Collins. Just check out TBogg during the girlfriend flap. Dan outed himself.
This is just another pathetic plea for hits that will generate some small change for Jeff so his wife won’t make him get a job.
It’s still pretty funny, though
Jeff, I’m glad to see that your novella hasn’t hindered your ability to spring down into the comment section of my blog and spray some graffiti.
Once you finish the literary work, you’re welcome to come guest write at this humble blog, where I will welcome your bridge-burning outbursts with pageview-loving arms.
I won’t even ban you if you threaten to beat me in the face with your cock, as you’ve done with your own commenters:
The facebook photo shoot for your picture though will have to be on your own dime.
Simon, Michelle
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