Cya Defamer

You'll probably be reading a lot about these kinds of things in the near future - the blog merge-and-survive stage should be starting up now as most of these blogs make next to no money, pay way too much for photos and end up going belly up.

DHD is reporting that the famous Defamer.com (a licensor of my photos of Steven Seagal in concert - thanks guys!) is being merged into the more corporate gawker.com.

Gawker.com is polishing up, like many other information providers like breitbart.com, AP, and CNN to be a premiere entertainment gossip site, taking on directly the likes of TMZ and the socially useless (my opinion, I'm sure society feels there's a use for his alleged smarts) Perez Hilton, as the market for entertainment news is heating up and is "seemingly" more profitable than news which matters.

Yes, entertainment news doesn't matter. But people seem to think it does so, go where the money is, right?

In all likelyhood, this will only homogenize the content, allowing for the more caustic, independent (and often factually incorrect) sites like TMZ and the educationally inept (my opinion only - I'm sure he's a smart human being) Perez Hilton, and for more intelligent fare (with actual, albeit extremely biased, but actual, bona-fide journalism) to flourish because their networks are fare more intricate, deep and more responsive than the established, say legacy networks...if you can call a department which has been around for 4 years legacy.

Recessions do cause the most interesting things to happen!