Update: Ha! John has truly humbled me by his response to my post below. I'll provide his response, then you can see the glaring mis-assumptions I made. Sorry, John.
"Incidentally, DoSomething.org is a non profit devoted to helping young people volunteer and do good in the world. We are donating our time and traffic to their cause, because it seemed like the right thing to do."
- John
John is the corporate CEO-type for Xanga. In certain past times, I have been both a confidante and friends with him. And I have also been, at certain past times, his greatest on-Xanga nemesis. I'm feeling a bit nemesisal now with Xanga. (yes, nemesisal is a new word that I just coined and not in any dictionaries. But you know what I mean. So who needs dictionaries?!) And feeling so, I left this comment on a recent John blog:
Original Post:
John -
I am beginning to think that Xanga and its corporate kith and its corporate kin have been sucked into the big-black-blog-anti-matter-disappearing-hole. Personally, you and/or Xanga Chris have never responded to my many recent inquiries about me technically having Xanga for LIFE (MommaRose bought it for me many years ago - I was one of the first so bequeathed!) but not having the "LIFE" banner attached along with my comments - as you clearly advertise should be the case for those now having "LIFE". Okay, it's a very small detail and personally, besides me, who really gives a fuck? Cleary, not you. And, really, nobody else should.
But well beyond that and of interest to the general Xanga community, now you are sponsoring "Featured Questions" from third-party paid-for advertisers such as DoSomething.org. By this investing indulgence, you are obviously just chasing the corporate pay-for Featured Question buck. Yes, you will probably get richer off of such sponsorships as you steer the Xanga masses to your sponsored payback presentations. Yes, you may gain grandiosely in the blogging-for-profit world, but, I submit, you will lose forever your essential blogging soul ( - a paraphrase from Jesus himself).
So why don't you ask Xanga this - if you dare to dip into "controversy" :
"Do you mind if we at Xanga sponsor Featured Questions from payback advertised sponsors (such as DoSomething.org - on August 2nd) and make money off of your every response, your every comment, your every link to the Featured Question, your responding clicks, and your domain click-thrus to the paying sponsoring site?"
There ya go. Food for Corporate Thought.
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