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9rules Receives Cookies
Written by Scrivs on October 5, 2006
Seems like today companies are getting either money, props or something, but not us. Today we got something that nobody else in the world could touch: Aunt Lucy’s Cookies. When Aunt Lucy dropped by the 9rules’ Offices to bring us her famous soft-baked, melt in your mouth chocolate chip cookies we knew we had hit it big. Even better was the warm feeling we received in our tummies due to the fact that we now know all of our hardwork has paid off.
Why would Aunt Lucy do such a thing? Well this is what she had to say.
I have been watching the 9rules Team for a while now and was simply amazed at the things they have done. It was surprising when I realized that nobody took the time to invest any cooking time in them and I saw a golden opportunity to shake things up. Admittedly I haven’t baked any cookies for content-based businesses before, but after seeing the joy on their faces when I brought my delicious cookies over I think I will research the space a bit more.
So what do we plan on doing with these cookies? The smart thing would be to ration them out so we can enjoy them over a longer period of time, but our instincts tell us to eat them all now and we can worry where they went later. We figured we would distribute some of the cookies to our Members knowing that would enrich our Network even more. Then we would take the rest of our revenue and buy some milk and sit back and enjoy the remaining cookies.
We considered adding more people to our staff to help us eat all of these cookies, but figured it was a safer bet to eat them on our own because we don’t like when people eat with their mouths open. This is an exciting time for us and you can definitely expect a lot more things coming from us since we are now juiced up on sugar.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:23 am
Hang on, let me see if I can draw some sort of parallel to this entry. Symbolism? Huh. What do the cookies represent? This is like analyzing poetry, Scrivs.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:28 am
[...] Exciting news for b5media and 9rules. I’ll be chastised for putting the two companies in the same sentence but that’s alright. b5media, one of my employers, raised $2 million in VC funding. 9rules, some of my best internet pals, has received some tasty cookies for all their great work. I don’t know which of these two rewards took more work… [...]
October 5th, 2006 at 11:31 am
Man these cookies taste like mindshare, only cookies buys you that!
October 5th, 2006 at 11:32 am
I love poetry. Reading it makes me feel like I am eating cookies.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:40 am
Seriously, I’m hungry now. What’s it take to get you guys to share? Let’s write more poetry, Scrivs.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
I don’t see the appeal of writing poetry with you.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Sorry, it was a request of you on everyone’s behalf. I didn’t mean it as a group venture.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
See cookies win all the time….. hmmmm oatmeal and raisin.
October 5th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Cookies have fueled 9rules in the past, right Mike.
Glad to see this vertical being persued for synergy with today’s emerging niche markets with a complete portfolio research effort to monetize the… oh I can’t.
It’s times like this that I am glad I am not rich. Then I might feel compelled to do something with my heaping great wodges of cash.
That said, I am totally baking cookies this weekend. You guys want me to send you some?
October 5th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
I always wonders how 9rules funds itself. What is its revenue model ?
October 5th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Selling ads to their own sites like ScrivsTyme and BusinessLogs, duh.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Hmm i thought this was going to be about an award 9rules got…
like webby award but called cookie… instead you give a cookie… blah blah….
but really how many awards are there for blogs… 9 rules should start one..
October 5th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
Funny you should mention that because Mike and I were talking the other day about starting a 9rules Blog Awards. I guess we will pursue, but would wait till January.
Cookies FTW!
October 6th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Oh kool,
Maybe i can get involved too. I really think its a great idea. and am sure it will be huge, because of the explotion of blogs…
I read on a magazine a new blog is created every two minutes (worldwide)
October 7th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
[...] Of course if it one thing we aren’t, we aren’t a dollar bill. We can’t please everyone and this is the reality of such things. We’ve been getting a lot of flack from 9rules as well as from Valleywag. But again, this is the blogosphere, and flack like this is expected. [...]
October 10th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
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