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- jonesin, on 10/10/2007, -2/+42Here's hoping they don't ***** up a good site.
- duggtodeath, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23Am I the only one who finds it strange that the #1 green site online sold out for a different type of green?
- RyGuyX, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19I dugg this one and buried the other - the other's title is misleading.
Also cheers to Discovery! Educating America and apparently caring for the environment. - eyebits, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18Today's top news: "First Endless Loop Corporate Acquisition"
A paradigm familiar to programmers and software engineers around the world has hit Corporate America. As reported on Digg.com TreeHugger acquired Discover Communications followed by the Discovery acquiring TreeHugger. This series of acquisitions has thus begun a corporate acquisition endless loop. In an attempt to get the story on how this began a call was placed to corporate headquarters, but the endless loop kept us from reaching anyone. The phone call was answered by a representative of Discovery who told us the needed to forward the call to TreeHugger. Upon reaching the TreeHugger representative we were told that the call needed to be forwarded to Discovery. In a further attempt to get information we sent an email to the head office, whereupon we received a bounce message from the mail server citing a forwarding loop problem. So, finally we made a trip over to the TreeHugger.com IT services department to see if we could get any word.
There we found a frantic sys admin who told us, "Hopefully we will soon find the business version of ctrl-z that will kill the corporate processes causing this. If all else fails we may have to try a kill -9."
This is not the first attempt at trying to create a corporate endless loop. It has been rumored that AT&T has been trying this for years. - Cwo655321, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15everyone has a price :)
- danielbachhuber, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Number one? Who is the PR dude writing these headlines?
- nixonrichard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10$
- Ajajadude, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Well, it's Discovery...they don't seem to have a agenda.
- afruff23, on 10/10/2007, -6/+14I can haz tree hugz?
- TrevorBelmont, on 10/10/2007, -5/+12Who acquired what now?
- ZennZero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Girth, You are thinking of the National Geographic Channel
- datastorageguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Yes my edumacation is greatly improved by all those motorcycle building shows.
- Humbick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5let the grammar comments begin
- satanatnmtedu, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Treehugger.com is long on hype and shor ton effective analysis. It is a crap site. Too bad too many digger fall for the stuff on there.
- mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Nothing, National Geographic Channel is what he owns my mistake, but keep the pipe
- datastorageguy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5So all that gaming of digg and getting front page posts led to a big pay off.
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Not logical. What would they possibly need with that site that they can't easily do themselves?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I was just thinking the same thing.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Starting to get it now?
Alarmist marketing pays...... - nuclearpenguins, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Please don't. You are not a unique snowflake and your blog will only be read by your mother.
Unless your mother happens to be dead, and in that case I'm sorry. :( - happytron, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I wonder if this means they'll stop spamming digg?
- tdgx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I guess treehugger's constant spamming of their articles all over Digg and similar sites has finally "paid" off.
- iDragonFly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Murdoch doesn't own Discover Channel ...... yet.
- brusty, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/treehugger_acqu.php
From the actual site. - jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2In an incredible move, it ’s now been revealed that Treehugger.com — the number one green site on the Internet. For a cool $10 million.
NEWS: Treehugger.com, the aptly named conversation site- has just been purchased by the Discovery Channel for a reported $10 million.
/how hard was that? - geoboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You don't have to have "a agenda" to ***** something up.
- shifty2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1is this why they sold off and closed all their Discovery Channel stores??
btw, i got some sweet furniture and a telescope @ 70% off!! - iDragonFly, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4How is that?
- celtickuja, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3#1, this is blogspam, again, as all of Digg has turned out to be.
#2, "In an incredible move, it ’s now been revealed that Treehugger.com — the number one green site on the Internet. For a cool $10 million." Those are two sentence fragments that really should be pieced together. If you want me to visit your blog to read about something, at least use proper grammar. - jdhammer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I wonder if this means we'll FINALLY see original content from digg instead of paraphrase/clickthrough spam. Wishful thinking.
Am I helping you to understand anything here? - climateHeretic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Since 75% of frontpage stories in this section are from treehugger.com that makes perfect sense they used it to up the count for the sale... 10 mill buys a lot of carbon credits.
- 3tcp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Maybe Discovery will stop buying diggs and we won't get bombarded with lame crap from them anymore.
- K3ITHK, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Dugg. Article is a dupe but the title is accurate this time.
- torched, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1With all these recent "blog buyouts" I should probably get started on my own
- mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1US Postal Service,Motorola, and 7-Eleven. these guys did the same starting in 1981
- jokko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0huh 10 millions:D
- jdhammer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Why do you hate Treehuggers? Oh never mind. You just go around saying stupid ***** like "damm hippies" and move elsewhere looking for the little self-worth boost you feel when you belittle something on the internet with no good reason. I for one am insulting you because you're clearly a moron. Why are you doing it?
- jdhammer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1What's alarmist about it? I doubt you've ever been to the site.
- jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I like the occasional cool houses and stuff that are occasionally Dugg. I wouldn't bookmark the site or anything but there are some really cool houses on there, alternative living spaces- that kind of thing which is eclectic.
- exformation, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Definitely good news for those treehuggers.
- maskinonge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Looking forward to "Logging with new assault weapons" or Cheney/Neugent co-hosting " Small caliber strategies for winging upland Democrats".
- iDragonFly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Exactly.
What they CAN do now is control the content and information flow.
I think we'll be seeing more of this kind of blog buyout by corporations.
New world order management:
If you can't shut them up, buy them out.
The only hope I have for this being a benign endeavor would be to discover that Discovery has a hankering to produce a program titled 'TreeHugger', and they simply want a matching URL. - codye, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3This is a great move. Discovery long ago dropped any pretense of fairness on science issues and instead became an advocacy organization. Acquiring Treehugger.com just seems like a logical step for them.
- bobotheking, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0"In an incredible move, it ’s now been revealed that Treehugger.com — the number one green site on the Internet."
In a terrible sentence fragment, it's now been revealed that I-- a person easily annoyed by fragments." - HighCountry1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I hate Treehuggers... Damm Hippies!
- crackedplastic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I wonder if this means we'll FINALLY see original content from treehugger instead of paraphrase/clickthrough spam. Wishful thinking.
- Loonacy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2I buried this one and dugg the other - the other one may have a joke title, but for those who get it it's just fine. Also, the other is straight from treehugger.com
And ecorazzi.com? A "green" gossip site? The front page has more celebrities than trees. - gback2000, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Discovery should have stayed with the sponsorship of their Bike team.
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