DISQUS

pawn shop?

I know it's perhaps a route more fraught with trial and tribulation, but how about trying to achieve internet 'fame' (if that's what you really want) by doing something useful?

I really admire everyone from Boris van...., to Michael Arrington to Marc Zuckerberg to Pete Cashmore who have achieved some level of internet fame through substance, i.e. they've made their mark by creating something others find useful. I'd put Robert Scoble in the same bracket as a Big Brother contestant. Sure, a certain demographic has heard of him, but it's because he's an attention seeker; not because he's done something worthwhile. You could get 'internet famous' by having sex with a park bench and putting the film on YouTube, but that kind of fame - along with that of Robert Scoble - isn't going to impress the grand kiddies. It's becomes the famous for being famous downward spiral. Why bother.

Might be worth clarifying that you mean British, as the provinces tend to take the hump about such matters...

I remember hearing an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme about 5 years ago where a Mr. Cialis was on commenting on his legal case against which ever drug co. makes the seemingly eponymous - to the Ciallis family - drug.

He was afraid that it'd ruin the family name.

12 months on and there's been a "Jalipo is being upgraded... we'll be back soon" holding page on jalipo.com. I'm so rarely right, I thought I should make a note of this rare occurence.

Are there many graphs for startups blogged heavily on launch that are different than this? Non-story?

Never.

Lovely glaring type on the home page. All that porn and I spot a syntax error :(