**Written by Doug Powers
The proposed “industry funded fee” on fresh Christmas trees is being back-burnered. Nothing like some public backlash heading into an election season to put an administration in the holiday spirit.
Actually, the delay appears to be in order to buy the Department of Agriculture some time to figure out a better way to explain to us why making things more expensive is always the best way to get a segment of the economy moving again.
From The Hill:
The Department of Agriculture on Thursday officially delayed a proposed 15 cent per tree fee paid by Christmas tree producers in order to fund a marketing and promotion effort to help boost tree sales.
[...]
“Due to recent events, the regulations are stayed in order to provide all interested persons, including the Christmas tree industry and the general public, an opportunity to become more familiar with the program,” it said.
Great tree industry promotion on the part of the Agriculture Department. Just as Christmas tree season approaches, they announced an initiative that gave consumers the impression that the cost of fresh Christmas trees would be rising. Traditionally that’s not the kind of news that gets businesses turnstyles moving faster, buy hey, who am I to argue with administration economists?
**Written by Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
Gawker Media is getting ready to sell Fleshbot (NSFW), its blog devoted to adult entertainment and human sexuality.
The network contains a roster of successful sites, from Lifehacker and Gizmodo to Jezebel and Jalopnik, each relatively well respected in its niche.
However, Fleshbot doesn’t seem like such a good fit for Gawker anymore. The site doesn’t appear in Gawker Media’s public lineup of online properties, and Fleshbot editor Lux Alptraum wrote recently that Gawker’s “sales strategy and technology platform have ceased to effectively support Fleshbot’s needs.
“We think someone else could be a much better partner to grow the site with us, and as such, Fleshbot is for sale.”
Gawker Media chief Nick Denton told All Things D this morning that Fleshbot “Just hadn’t fit for a long long time” but that he held onto the property “because [he was] slow to realize the inevitable.”
Of course, being cynical journalists, we’re wont to follow the money when inexplicable business decisions come to light. After all, bad fit or no bad fit, Denton held onto Fleshbot for eight long years — in Internet time, that’s something close to the lifespan of your average Galapagos tortoise. The site may have been simply underperforming financially (which Alptraum hinted at in noting a lack of marketing support, perhaps?), making it an easy target for amputation from the Gawker family — or making its own leadership seek out new owners.
One thing you can take to the bank, though: The day a porn site can’t make money on the Internet is the day we all pack up and go home.
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Rachel Maddow Calls Out Fox <b>News</b>' New Low Against Occupy Wall <b>...</b>**Written by Doug Powers
The proposed “industry funded fee” on fresh Christmas trees is being back-burnered. Nothing like some public backlash heading into an election season to put an administration in the holiday spirit.
Actually, the delay appears to be in order to buy the Department of Agriculture some time to figure out a better way to explain to us why making things more expensive is always the best way to get a segment of the economy moving again.
From The Hill:
The Department of Agriculture on Thursday officially delayed a proposed 15 cent per tree fee paid by Christmas tree producers in order to fund a marketing and promotion effort to help boost tree sales.
[...]
“Due to recent events, the regulations are stayed in order to provide all interested persons, including the Christmas tree industry and the general public, an opportunity to become more familiar with the program,” it said.
Great tree industry promotion on the part of the Agriculture Department. Just as Christmas tree season approaches, they announced an initiative that gave consumers the impression that the cost of fresh Christmas trees would be rising. Traditionally that’s not the kind of news that gets businesses turnstyles moving faster, buy hey, who am I to argue with administration economists?
**Written by Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
Gawker Media is getting ready to sell Fleshbot (NSFW), its blog devoted to adult entertainment and human sexuality.
The network contains a roster of successful sites, from Lifehacker and Gizmodo to Jezebel and Jalopnik, each relatively well respected in its niche.
However, Fleshbot doesn’t seem like such a good fit for Gawker anymore. The site doesn’t appear in Gawker Media’s public lineup of online properties, and Fleshbot editor Lux Alptraum wrote recently that Gawker’s “sales strategy and technology platform have ceased to effectively support Fleshbot’s needs.
“We think someone else could be a much better partner to grow the site with us, and as such, Fleshbot is for sale.”
Gawker Media chief Nick Denton told All Things D this morning that Fleshbot “Just hadn’t fit for a long long time” but that he held onto the property “because [he was] slow to realize the inevitable.”
Of course, being cynical journalists, we’re wont to follow the money when inexplicable business decisions come to light. After all, bad fit or no bad fit, Denton held onto Fleshbot for eight long years — in Internet time, that’s something close to the lifespan of your average Galapagos tortoise. The site may have been simply underperforming financially (which Alptraum hinted at in noting a lack of marketing support, perhaps?), making it an easy target for amputation from the Gawker family — or making its own leadership seek out new owners.
One thing you can take to the bank, though: The day a porn site can’t make money on the Internet is the day we all pack up and go home.
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