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Money Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the money facet of life. Money-Blog: Money-Shot News Valleywag Salaciousness A Real Money Shot: February 29, 2008 by David A. Utter
Page views roll when a lady talks blue A simple formula pays off at the Valleywag corner of the Gawker Media empire: take a mostly male audience in a notoriously sexually frustrated profession, add a dirty-talking scribe, and watch the page views roll on in. We have to imagine one-time solo Wagger Nick Douglas, now a special correspondent for Valleywag, must have done a loud facepalm when Melissa Gira Grant signed on to Nick Denton's Silicon Valley blog and started dishing out R-rated pictures and sex talk. To think, Douglas' posts about Eric Schmidt's personal life were controversial once. Probably still are, but Grant's relatively anonymous ladies discussed in her post probably aren't multi-billionaires who could be Denton to painful inconvenience. Grant's approach has repeatedly achieved the blogging Holy Grail - page views. "I'm a sex worker, a mistress-for-hire, a whore," Grant said by way of her introductory post on Valleywag. Now, when you see a young lady wearing little more than a smile on a Valleywag post, it's a given Grant is on the byline. As long as she's racking up thousands of page views, probably to the dismay of writers (ok, maybe not, see comment below) like Paul Boutin, who agreed with our Jason Lee Miller that Valleywag might be thought of as something of a porno site now. Lighten up, boys. With as many people tuning in to Grant, it's obvious the Valley isn't missing the next great startup, not when there's a woman who will talk frankly, honestly, and above all, dirty to them. The real shocker (ha ha) will be when sites like InfoWorld and Information Week start hiring Grant-clones for their sites. Money Blog Comment:
Since times immemorial, sex has always been a sure hit in the market... the real money shot! The lyrics of the song Ludacris Money Maker beautifully mock at the situations that prevail: Luda You know I got it If you wanna come get it Stand next to this money Like - ey ey Verse 1 Shake, shake, shake your money maker ... ... ... Violence is another money shot that is always hit in the market. That is why we always see the world of entertainment replete with these two formula ingredients - sex and violence. Perhaps both are inter-related somewhere, somehow. The rationing of sex - on sex - is what gives rise to the suppressed violence inside us. Even sex turns to violence rather than love in such a scenario. And the violence turns sexual! The rapes ensue. No woman is safe on the surface of the planet, only because we have made sex a taboo!
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