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JPG magazine in Manufactured Bidding War
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Stored in: In Situ
Posted On: January 12 2009
By: Bryan Partington
Photo © poopoorama
JPG magazine launched as a little more than a pamphlet generated by images submitted and selected from a flickr group pool. Created by Flickr's Community Manager Heather Champ, JPG magazine was a true community effort that grew into a commercial enterprise that saw its founders forced out, its founders' usurpers leave the company, and which announced its death 10 days ago.
After announcing that it was closing its doors, the company received a fair amount of publicity and peculiar postings started to appear on influential tech-blog TechCrunch.
First, they announced that JPG was for sale, and could be saved within the week. Then they announced that Flickr, Smugmug and "Others" were bidding to buy the magazine. Heather Champ responded flat out that flickr had no interest in the magazine, while Smugmug clearly isn't capable of acquiring the magazine on its own, asking for financial help in making the acquisition on friendfeed of all places. The "other" potential acquirer listed in the TechCrunch post was apparently later rejected as a bidder. It would be very difficult for TechCrunch to be any more incorrect in its reporting than it was.
Now JPG is announcing that it will be saved after all. By who? They won't say. But we'll know within a week! .. "or so".
I can't help but think this all smells of fish.
1 comments on this Ink
On August 19, 2009, ~Mortelle said ...
Could it be just a "post-modern" method to get advertised? I wonder!
Otherwise, in In Situ:
- Previously: Why Flickr Commons is Important to Me
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