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    The Secret Formula of Nikki Finke's Success

    Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?

    Exposed: Nikki Finke's Small-Time Traffic

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    10/13/09

    In reply to Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?
    Disagree on Perez and Arrington, but the rest sound pretty dead-on to me. Still, the Dark Lord will not be pleased.

    Perez's personality is the key to the site and the key to the media coverage: he's kind of like JT Leroy, except (alas) he actually exists. There's gotta be some money in that. His sister and whatever wankbloggers he can sucker into posting for him are worth money precisely and only because people can mistake their work for his. No Perez, no brand, no popularity. Authenticity, even or especially outrageous, offensive authenticity, is what the audience is responding to.

    Arrington is sort of a found comedy object among the geekerati, but otherwise not key to the success of his site.

    Moral: despotism pays. And Huffington and Denton should never shake hands, or the universe will explode.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?
    With $40+ million, one hopes Drudge would buy more than one hat. Or at least a new siren.
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/13/09

    @drewB: Hey, that's not fair -- sometimes he has TWO sirens on the site!
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    Image of Senator Sully Senator Sully
    10/13/09

    In reply to Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?
    Ok, I bite. How much for Julia Allison?
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    10/13/09

    @Senator Sully:
    Around these parts the opening bid is $120 for the best bits.
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/13/09

    @Smitros: How dare you! Julia gets paid $120 for two tweets worth of her expert dating advice. $4/word, remember?
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    10/06/09

    In reply to Exposed: Nikki Finke's Small-Time Traffic
    Never mind the numbers: look at the DEMOGRAPHICS! The $0-$30,000 annual income group is by far the majority of her readership. Middle-aged poors, basically.

    Who's advertising on her site, Walmart? Tar-jhay? Home Depot? Metamucil.
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    10/06/09

    In reply to Exposed: Nikki Finke's Small-Time Traffic
    Considering that the Hollywood Reporter is going Internet and Variety looks vulnerable, I think 625K for Nikki is a bargain.
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    10/06/09

    In reply to Exposed: Nikki Finke's Small-Time Traffic
    Not saying how i know, but those numbers have gone way down from late 2008. Interesting.
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    10/06/09

    In reply to Exposed: Nikki Finke's Small-Time Traffic
    I've decided I really love that photo you run with NF articles. It's like Peggy Lee will pay Cash 4 Gold!
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    10/07/09

    @scroll_lock: So, it wasn't just me...
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    10/06/09

    In reply to Exposed: Nikki Finke's Small-Time Traffic
    So dissing David Remnick as a "New Jersey dentist's son" in her riposte to the New Yorker Finke profile didn't boost her traffic?

    I truly LOL-ed at that quip. Nikkisville showing her snob colors.. She grew up at the Plaza Hotel, rubbing elbows with the NYC elites, and she so clearly LOATHES that a boy from the burbs runs The New Yorker now.
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    10/06/09

    In reply to Exposed: Nikki Finke's Small-Time Traffic
    Two things can happen. She'll broaden the appeal of her current site, and lose the movers & shakers (would that impact advertisers? How would they even know?).

    Or she'll come up with another, "related" site with a broader appeal (the Kitchen Finke?).
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    09/06/09

    In reply to Nikki Finke One Step Closer to Dream of Becoming World's Worst Boss
    You misunderstand; when these people say they've got someone "locked up" you should NEVER assume it's a metaphor.
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    09/04/09

    In reply to Nikki Finke One Step Closer to Dream of Becoming World's Worst Boss
    I've only had one email exchange with the woman and that was enough for me to tell you that answering to that woman would be a complete fucking nightmare.
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    09/04/09

    In reply to Nikki Finke One Step Closer to Dream of Becoming World's Worst Boss
    What I've always wondered is why there are more pictures of the Loch Ness Monster available than there are pictures of Finke. Are we sure she even exists?
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    09/04/09

    In reply to Nikki Finke One Step Closer to Dream of Becoming World's Worst Boss
    Not being a Defamer regular... she sounds Ronn Torossian-esque.
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    09/04/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC:

    You forgot the "[sic]".
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    09/04/09

    In reply to Nikki Finke One Step Closer to Dream of Becoming World's Worst Boss
    Richard, when do you start with Nikki? I say that with love as I have been a big fan of yours since I read your crazy ass book about Hollywood.
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    Image of Richard Rushfield Richard Rushfield
    09/04/09

    @belltolls: I should do it as a performance art project. Thank you Bell. New book out in november, catch the wave. [tinyurl.com]
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    08/06/09

    In reply to The Blog-War Revenge of Brooklyn's Hipsters
    It seems odd to compare Tumblr statistics to Wordpress.com statistics, as many Wordpress users use their own build, rather than Wordpress.com. (In fact, isn't that part of the appeal?)
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