Adrants - Calacanis And Copeland: Weblog Advertising Outlook:
"In what could be construed as either a validation of the weblog business model or a backhanded slap, Calacanis referred to competing Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton thusly, 'When Nick Denton launched knock-offs of Autoblog, Joystiq, Gadling and HackADay three or four months after we launched them I was thrilled. Not just because it establishes us as a leader in the space and Nick as the follower, but because advertisers could look at each of the blogs and say 'do I want Coke and/or Pepsi' as opposed to 'do I want to drink that strange dark fizzing liquid?!?!'"
