Hugh MacLeod
Cartoons drawn on the back of business cards
October 6, 2005
1. AOL buys Weblogs Inc. Congrats to Jason Calacanis.
2. VNU, the Dutch Media conglomerate, has done a deal with Gawker Media. Congrats to Nick Denton.
3. Wow.
[UPDATE:] Dave Winer’s Weblogs.com sells for $2.3 million to VeriSign. When it rains, it pours etc.
I'm a cartoonist.
I sell limited-edition prints.
I wrote a book.
I'm CEO of Stormhoek USA, which markets South African wine in the States.
I also draw private commissions.
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Opening | Current |
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Bluetrain |
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We Need to Talk |
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Portfolio #2 |
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Shhhh!
I don’t think the AOL news is official yet . . .
Wait.… then what happens if Google buys AOL?
Aah, the question really is, who gets to buy hugh?
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Big News In Blog Land!
Rafat Ali at Paid Content reports that AOL (of all companies!) is buying Jason Calcanis’ Weblogs Inc. for as much as $35 million. Add this to the news that Nick Denton’s Gawker Media has teamed up with international media conglomerate VNU, and it’s eas…
Weblogs Inc and Gawker Media Deals
Rafat Ali reports on PaidContent that AOL has bought Jason Calcanis’ Weblogs Inc. Hugh Macleod says that Gawker has just done a deal with VNU.
I love to see the $ going to those working in this space. When my buddy Ace at East India Branding s…
One of the first results of the Gawker/VNU-Deal is a german version of gizmodo (de.gizmodo.com), which is really terrible. Nothing to open a bottle of champagne on.
There was actually a lot of talk about things related to your blogging points in the previous post at Web 2.0 this week. And a big wow re: VNU deal — I hadn’t heard about that one.
Add Dave Winer’s deal into the mix and it reminds me of the dot-con boom. I can’t help but wonder when Joi will see his pay for investing with the Trotts. They would be next in line for a big deal. Or did they already and I was sleeping when it happened?