{"id":1452,"date":"2007-06-21T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T18:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/21\/lets-not-encourage-these-bozos\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T14:47:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T18:47:40","slug":"lets-not-encourage-these-bozos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/21\/lets-not-encourage-these-bozos\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Let&#8217;s not encourage these bozos&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/arringtonmalik.jpg?w=525\" alt='arringtonmalik.jpg' \/>Today&#8217;s laugh out loud moment is brought to you by John Biggs, the former Gizmodo writer who now does CrunchGear, the gadget blog that is part of Mike Arrington&#8217;s expanding TechCrunch empire. Biggs <a href=\"http:\/\/crunchgear.com\/2007\/06\/21\/writers-write-b-logs-get-money\/\">writes about<\/a> the USA Today story featuring Mike and Om Malik, which talks about how they built their blogs into businesses, and his post just about made me fall off my chair:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know who these people are or what they think they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing, but I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bad to show people that you can make \u00e2\u20ac\u0153real money\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d how much, Om Malley? $5? HA! \u00e2\u20ac\u201d doing this. <\/p>\n<p>There are jobs that Americans should be doing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d car repair, HVAC installation, dance instruction \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that are going empty while these two jokers sit around all day pretending to work. For shame. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153B-logging,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d like stamp collecting and religious observance, should be considered a hobby and nothing more. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not encourage these bozos.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is gold, John. If I were Mike and Om, I would print your post, laminate it and hang it on my wall.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s laugh out loud moment is brought to you by John Biggs, the former Gizmodo writer who now does CrunchGear, the gadget blog that is part of Mike Arrington&#8217;s expanding TechCrunch empire. Biggs writes about the USA Today story featuring Mike and Om Malik, which talks about how they built their blogs into businesses, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/21\/lets-not-encourage-these-bozos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Let&#8217;s not encourage these bozos&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}