Oh and do you think if Matt asked those “hard questions” that have a tendency to make the companies theylook to for their news bad, they would continue to get those nice exclusives and interviews? You guys are living in a dream world and CBR, Wizard, IGN or any of the other sites that have to maintain advertising as an actual business.

I will say for Newsarama that Karma is a bitch, because I think its funny how they would post those articles making Wizard seem like bad guys and how all the little bloggers would leave comments about how far Wizard has fallen only to have the same thing happen to them now.

Ha! They should have stayed in the institution.

I’ll go scope out the Outhouse & CBR. Happily, when I am in the mood for comix newz, usually the Beat has it covered. (Lil’ T-day thanks to the hostess, but it be true.)

News Flash… you blabbers do not own Newsarama — you work for them (and were quite to my surprise — paid at a reasonable enough rate higher than $.01 a word — cause you know, freelance writers are paid by the word). And now you retreat to a relatively unknown corner of blogdom… real smart! How many message boards are there? How many comics news sites are there? And now you want to start another one? Good luck.

A simple “We have decided to part ways due to creative differences,” would have sufficed. Instead, we get this dirty laundry list of evil doings followed by the every so familiar whine… wah! I couldn’t post my new blog because Darth Vader changed the coding to the site without telling me!

I believe there’s a little bit of “delusions of grandeur” floating about in the fall air…

I rarely go back to Nrama. Instead I just check out this site and Journalista for my comics news, with the occassional look at CBR.

And perhaps the new bloggers will work for free ala the new business model Wizard is trying to establish.

AND making a living off it??

Not to mention it took two years for a raise to finally kick in??

Jeez, and I thought I had it tough at Sony Pictures Television.

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Coat

As for the boards, I loved Talk@ pre-Imaginova, but after, I couldn’t even log in and gave up, and relocated full time to the Outhouse. The Outhouse is better though. The greatest posters from Newsarama in a fun non-hostile environment where anyone can contribute to the site.

I wish the best of luck to the Blog@ crew.

Another blackeye for Matt, good riddance.

Similarly, as good as the stories at Newsaram is, the real selling point has always been the bulletin boards. I’m still a regular poster at the Rama, but it’s dropped to a sad fraction of the level of activity it once was. From the day the switch was thrown and everything got All Plucked Up, as soon as people couldn’t log in with their old handles, they started leaving and not coming back.

Endless little things popped up, like comment threads about articles being separate from the regular threads on the boards, the aforementioned errors with the blog comments, the oft-demanded “Go to last comment” button, each adding to the collecting strain on the virtual camel’s back.

The articles at the ‘Rama are still choice, thanks primarily to interviewers like Vaneta “Moonbeam” Rogers and her cohorts. But the overall level of fun of the boards has dropped like a sack of batteries.

I’m loath to migrate for greener pastures like the outhouse or even the CBR forums, mainly because I’d get that “starting over from scratch” feeling that one always gets when one moves from one place to another. Like Jan Brady, I’d feel the need to get involved in every conversation in a vain attempt to find my niche again. But right now I’d say the number of regular posters could be counted on the hands of a few people, as opposed to the hundred of regulars from six months ago.

While the world scarcely needs another blog from another person who considers his statements so damn important, but it might be a way to allow me to contralize my pontification activities. Who knows. Anyone got any suggestions for a new place for me to hang my hat?

Times must be getting tough in the paid blogging world…after all, Gawker closed down its blog Valleywag and has Consumerist up for sale.