Om Malik caught up with Pets.com Sock Puppet for this exclusive interview:
MALIK: Now that everyone has had their say on the YouTube killer being crafted together by News Corp and NBC, we decided to check in with the Pets.com sock puppet and ask what it thought about today’s blog-shaking developments. Here are excerpts from an interview with the ghost of the dot-com past:
Mr. Sock Puppet, nice to meet you. I’m a long time observer if not a believer in what you represent.
You are just a pessimistic twit so can’t say it is a pleasure talking to you. But I will take any attention I can get. Not that I have any budget for a Super Bowl ad.
So Mr. Puppet, why do you think they launched this joint project/venture/company?
As my friend Triumph, the insulting comic dog, says, to poop on Google/YouTube.
What do you make of this news announcement?
These kind of grand alliances haven’t worked in the past. Too many big egos, too many chefs and not enough eggs to make the soufflé.
Does anyone remember the grand phone company alliance – Concert, or Rupert Murdoch’s ISP alliance with MCI? For some of your younger readers, the grand alliance between record companies to compete with Napster. Musicnet – Music Not was more like it . . . .
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