Fun at my expense

NBR on Friday had the usual fun at my expense:

Who are they, the whiz-kid high flyers whose dotcom innovations are set to become the object of a frenzied bidding war as the country’s media giants look to supplement their operations with new platforms? In the wake of this month’s bombshell sale of one online auction site, In Tray spotlights the top contenders for the corporate chequebook.

David P Farrar, 19, who started the hugely successful kiwiblog.co.nz two years ago from his Wellington garden shed, and today draws in as many as 820,000 unique visitors each hour according to independent auditors McFarrar & Sons, could now command as much as $1.4 billion in an all-out bidding war between Australasian media leaders. In addition to his regularly updated views on life in the political heartland, analysts point to the “tech-savvy” teenager’s runaway popularity with the younger generation who have all but given up reading conventional newspapers. Says David: “Everything I experience becomes fodder for Kiwiblog – like the other day when I asked why lattes are pronounced lat-TAYS. That got me 542 responses, including a lot of funny ones from my close friends from Parliament.” Could this be the magic bullet newspaper giant APN is looking for?

Heh. Also Generation XY has created an animated dancing DPF. It’s truly awful so don’t let kids near it.