Apparently today is a font of ridiculous:
- Meet the HIV… mafia?
- Praise the Lord: Authorities find 30 pounds of pot in pictures of Jesus.
- Whatspace? MySpace continues its slow and painful death as its CEO retires after less than a year on the job:
We’re not surprised to hear that Van Natta has left, or that the slow pace at MySpace reportedly contributed to his decision. MySpace’s seven-year history follows a smooth narrative arc in retrospect:
1. Copy Friendster but make it music-friendly.
2. Sit back as everyone and their mother signs up for MySpace. Pack it with ads and sell it to News Corp.
3. Sit back as Facebook does to MySpace what MySpace did to Friendster. Lose $100 million due to a missed Google traffic target.
4. Try to remember why everyone loved MySpace so much in the first place: free music.
5. Launch a free music service with the backing of three major labels that’s difficult to use, lives in a totally different section of the site from the band pages where people are used to finding music, and was apparently designed in such a complicated way that it was not easy to fix.
6. Fail.
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