27th June 2007
"Jenny!" jenbarbahen@gmail.com
Hi:
Sorry to intrude...but was emailing back and forth with Jungle Jane and she said you had the same problem that I am having wiht some fucktard imposter commenting with your picture and name. I was wondering what you did to stop it?
The Second Johnson Reply
19th June 2007
Dear Soren,
I am disappointed but understand your reasons.In respect of the questions you raise:
Yes, this is a non-profit venture. We would not expect to sell advertising until the blog-letter had been running for a while. Until then it would be financed by my own resources.
Contributors would not be paid anything until I had recouped my start-up costs. Copyright would be retained by the participating bloggers.
Submissions would not be altered without their consent, but we would reserve the right not to publish a submission we thought was inappropriate.
The participating bloggers see this as an opportunity to bring their work to a wider readership, as their URLs will be published in the blog letter and linked in our website.
If you would like to discuss this with the other bloggers, I will ask their permission to reveal their identities to you.
I think you are familiar with a couple of them.
Otherwise, thank you for considering my invitation.
Regards
Johnny
A wider readership huh? what don't students find blogs on their own? considering most bloggers are between the ages of 30 - 50 I wasn't quite believing the logic here, also he was a bit eager to tell me who the other bloggers were. My spidey sense was doing somersaults.
Dear Soren,
I am disappointed but understand your reasons.In respect of the questions you raise:
Yes, this is a non-profit venture. We would not expect to sell advertising until the blog-letter had been running for a while. Until then it would be financed by my own resources.
Contributors would not be paid anything until I had recouped my start-up costs. Copyright would be retained by the participating bloggers.
Submissions would not be altered without their consent, but we would reserve the right not to publish a submission we thought was inappropriate.
The participating bloggers see this as an opportunity to bring their work to a wider readership, as their URLs will be published in the blog letter and linked in our website.
If you would like to discuss this with the other bloggers, I will ask their permission to reveal their identities to you.
I think you are familiar with a couple of them.
Otherwise, thank you for considering my invitation.
Regards
Johnny
A wider readership huh? what don't students find blogs on their own? considering most bloggers are between the ages of 30 - 50 I wasn't quite believing the logic here, also he was a bit eager to tell me who the other bloggers were. My spidey sense was doing somersaults.
In regards to your invitation
My reply 19th June 2007:
Dear Mr. Johnson
--Thank you for your kind offer, but I am afraid I must decline. I would not care to give over copyright, licensing, creative control, or presentation of my material to another. Also, while I publish my material for free in my blog, I would not care to publish elsewhere without payment.
It seems that your enterprise is being set up to be an NPO, or at least Iam assuming so from the .org ending of your proposed website, and I may not necessarily agree with the views of the founders of your NPO, or with your advertisers. In total, it seems that your enterprise has a great many questions that would have to addressed, at least in regard to me and my material, far too many to go into detail here.
If your enterprise reaches the stage where you are able to address these concerns, pleasefeel free to contact me in the future.
I always appreciate hearing from readers.
Again, my regrets, and best wishes in your enterprise.
Sincerely,
Soren Knudsen
You can see that I can appear civilised when pushed, usually I can't be arsed.
Dear Mr. Johnson
--Thank you for your kind offer, but I am afraid I must decline. I would not care to give over copyright, licensing, creative control, or presentation of my material to another. Also, while I publish my material for free in my blog, I would not care to publish elsewhere without payment.
It seems that your enterprise is being set up to be an NPO, or at least Iam assuming so from the .org ending of your proposed website, and I may not necessarily agree with the views of the founders of your NPO, or with your advertisers. In total, it seems that your enterprise has a great many questions that would have to addressed, at least in regard to me and my material, far too many to go into detail here.
If your enterprise reaches the stage where you are able to address these concerns, pleasefeel free to contact me in the future.
I always appreciate hearing from readers.
Again, my regrets, and best wishes in your enterprise.
Sincerely,
Soren Knudsen
You can see that I can appear civilised when pushed, usually I can't be arsed.
An invitation to write for The Smoking Banana
Here is an e-mail I recieved 18 June 2007.
From "Johnny Johnson"
Dear Mr Knudsen,
I am a reader of humorous blogs and very much enjoy your one.
This autumn, I am publishing a blog letter for distribution to universities in the UK. I have already selected 4 bloggers for the paper version, but am looking for 2 other bloggers for the electronic version to be downloaded from our website. These 2 other bloggers would be given the freedom to write content too strong for the paper version. They would be be advertised on the paper version.
Would you be interested in writing articles for the electronic version? You would be free to use material from your archives that isn't topical. Or you could write topical items especially for the blog letter.
The blog letter will be called 'The Smoking Banana'. Ten issues will be published from October to May, so you would need to produce 10 articles of 400-550 words. If you go to 550 there won't be room for a picture.
To give you an idea of what it will look like, I have attached a trial front page.
I look forward to hearing from you
Yours sincerely
Johnny Johnson
A strange invitation, it leaves you wondering just what is in it for them that they are not saying, my first instincts were to avoid this but then I have this thing about being fearless and wanted to see where it lead too. I couldn't see it being a good idea that would make money, a news letter with blogs? it sounds like someones ego needs to be stroked a bit.
From "Johnny Johnson"
Dear Mr Knudsen,
I am a reader of humorous blogs and very much enjoy your one.
This autumn, I am publishing a blog letter for distribution to universities in the UK. I have already selected 4 bloggers for the paper version, but am looking for 2 other bloggers for the electronic version to be downloaded from our website. These 2 other bloggers would be given the freedom to write content too strong for the paper version. They would be be advertised on the paper version.
Would you be interested in writing articles for the electronic version? You would be free to use material from your archives that isn't topical. Or you could write topical items especially for the blog letter.
The blog letter will be called 'The Smoking Banana'. Ten issues will be published from October to May, so you would need to produce 10 articles of 400-550 words. If you go to 550 there won't be room for a picture.
To give you an idea of what it will look like, I have attached a trial front page.
I look forward to hearing from you
Yours sincerely
Johnny Johnson
A strange invitation, it leaves you wondering just what is in it for them that they are not saying, my first instincts were to avoid this but then I have this thing about being fearless and wanted to see where it lead too. I couldn't see it being a good idea that would make money, a news letter with blogs? it sounds like someones ego needs to be stroked a bit.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
