Remember the Gay '90s?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Word of advice to anyone doing business with either of them: insist on cash up front.

+1

[legion]

once upon a time in Tokyo if you went to a bar to meet your buddy and your buddy was late you picked up a copy of a free paper to thumb thru while you waited

then along came the smart phone

the free paper medium is in decline

[yanpa]

Damn, there go the plans for a print version of FG.

If print publications could downsize to the dimensions of a bar of chocolate and somehow encourage their readers to make the kind of one and two-fingered swiping gestures of the sort one would make on a woman's naughty bits if one was in an ill-advised hurry to get down to business, they might stand a fighting chance.

[Taro Toporific]

Damn, there go the plans for a print version of FG...

Terrie Lloyd: Japan Partnership KK Fraud
Posted on May 20, 2013 by Mark Devlin
On May 13, 2013,  Terrie Lloyd announced on his newsletter, Terrie’s Take, that Japan Partnership KK, the publisher of Metropolis magazine, had entered into an agreement with All About Inc to provide content from japantourist.jp.
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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Is he Muck Delvin' now?

If he'd put as much effort into making his magazine this enjoyable to read, he wouldn't be having these sorts of problems now....


What a bunch of charlatan crooks...they should start a religion.

[GomiGirl]

It is really getting ugly out there.

Taro - got some spare popcorn to share?

[Taro Toporific]

It is really getting ugly out there.
Taro - got some spare popcorn to share?

Sure, just reach into my popcorn container...

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[matsuki]

I prefer the antics of moose and squirrel to these two...unless they settle the dispute battle royal style

[sublight]

Sparky should team up with CJ and Debito to bang out a 500-page manifesto slamming everyone from the grade school lunch lady who wouldn't give seconds on pudding cups to the salaryman who sat next to them on the train yesterday but kinda looked like he was thinking twice about it first.

[legion]

It is really getting ugly out there.

Taro - got some spare popcorn to share?

slow train wrecks cached for all to see

it's better than reality TV

[legion]

the volunteers who have worked on japantourist.jp,

when you read the numbers flying around you can't help but wonder why people "volunteer"

it's like Huffington Post on a smaller scale

Japanese authorities are unlikely to give a shit about foreigners screwing each other over

at the end of the day the moral of the story is don't ask your brothers to beat up French DJs at Las Chicas, cos word gets round and you will get scant sympathy years later when your karma comes round and bites you on the ass

[GomiGirl]

at the end of the day the moral of the story is don't ask your brothers to beat up French DJs at Las Chicas,

Oh - that is a story that I haven't heard... do tell.

[legion]

Not much more to tell, apparently there were some legal issues some time ago between a well heeled young man about town and a couple of entrepreneurs, rather than go through all the rigmarole of a court case one of the entrepreneurs took advantage of a visit by siblings to this fair isle and had them settle the matter out of court. I can't help wondering what a young impressionable man of independent means could have done to end up in this situation with two such speedy entrepreneurs.

Which is why in my little circle the general attitude is "couldn't have happened to nicer people"

[sublight]

Wow, quite a charming pair of 'legitimate businessmen'.

[legion]

Wow, quite a charming pair of 'legitimate businessmen'.

businesspeople please

[Taro Toporific]

Need more popcorn?

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via http://www.linkedin.com/group...

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[wagyl]

I haven't witnessed a better public stoush since Chenelle went at Stacy with her Dr Scholl sandals behind the bike racks!

[matsuki]

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Splash guards are up...

[legion]

When are these guys going to open an office in Japan?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/24/search-me-online-reputation-management

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

When are these guys going to open an office in Japan?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/24/search-me-online-reputation-management

In my (considerable) experience with these services, they are mostly charlatans with negligible results...

[legion]

When are these guys going to open an office in Japan?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/24/search-me-online-reputation-management

In my (considerable) experience with these services, they are mostly charlatans with negligible results...

like just about every internet consultant

[Coligny]

When are these guys going to open an office in Japan?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/24/search-me-online-reputation-management

In my (considerable) experience with these services, they are mostly charlatans with negligible results...

It's just because you are not on the good side of the business plan.

Speaking of which... Does youze knows how one can become one of those underpaid outsourced slaves operating behind facebook complaints review teams ? I heard it's a 'telecommuting' job mostly awarded to india or other third world shithole...

But it's a fucking stalker wet dream...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

It's just because you are not on the good side of the business plan.

Undeniably so. Just in case you're in any doubt, if I complain about anything it's because I'm not a beneficiary. I freely admit to being a massive hypocrite with absolutely no morals or scruples. I would have made a perfect lawyer, banker, politician or priest had I realized and acknowledged these character traits earlier in life.....ah, well.

Speaking of which... Does youze knows how one can become one of those underpaid outsourced slaves operating behind facebook complaints review teams ? I heard it's a 'telecommuting' job mostly awarded to india or other third world shithole...
But it's a fucking stalker wet dream...

I am probably among the world's worst people to ask about anything Internet-related. I'm an absolute technophobe and have too much pride to be an outsourced slave. It does sound like a fun job, though....

[Taro Toporific]

These lastest accusations seem to make the Lloydodon look very rational.

Terrie Lloyd: The print magazine I own has no future
May 29, 2013 by Mark Devlin blog
Yesterday I noticed a column on Beacon Reports by Roger Solomon....
..Terrie Lloyd Pulls Out of Paper Publishing, attempts to portray Lloyd as a publishing expert who through no fault of his own has found that the print market is just not profitable any more and is wisely moving ahead to a new age of digital publishing. It is filled with the usual Lloyd misdirections: blaming the Lehman shock and the Tohoku earthquake for his troubles; how he has “relinquished control” of Metropolis; how he gave up the ACCJ Journal magazine (we have heard from multiple sources he was fired) and his latest trope, also echoed in the most recent Terrie’s Take: Print is dead.
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Terrie Lloyd Pulls Out of Paper Publishing

[GomiGirl]

I still find it odd that despite magazines all over the globe closing down and going digital, that the downturn for Metropolis is still being blamed on Terrie Lloyd.

I have no doubt that Terrie is in financial trouble with Metropolis and the Devlins, however, I do doubt that the cash Mark is claiming is his, is in Terrie's pocket or squirrelled away in off shore bank accounts. Rather that it just doesn't and never has existed. Moving the debt was probably just to keep the doors open and the lights on. If Terrie goes bankrupt then nobody will get any money ever!!

The silence from the Link Media side is deafening. I suspect that this case will see the inside of a court room 'ere long.

[Samurai_Jerk]

This is really one of the most pathetic public fights I've ever witnessed. Even worse than a certain journalist because he at least has mental illness as an excuse.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I suspect that this case will see the inside of a court room 'ere long.

I strongly doubt it. What's the point? The best the Devloons could get would be a ruling for a few million, which Turdy won't pay anyway. It would only be worthwhile for them to shut Turdy up when he counters their arguments by saying "Mark, I'll see you in court," knowing full well that the Devloons' eventual victory (and it will be a victory because Turdy Roid has never refuted their arguments with any detail and admits not paying his bills) will be nothing more than Pyrrhic and maybe too much for those canny Scots to fork out, especially if they're going to fuck off back to Florida and sing karaoke again.

I've little sympathy for any of the people in this spat, all of whom are living the high life while they're fucking around with the lives of the poor punters slaving away for them (or being bashed up, in some cases).

Scumbags.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Even worse than a certain journalist because he at least has mental illness as an excuse.

That's a slur on the mentally ill (unless you were talking about me in the first place, in which case you're absolutely correct, even though I'm not a journalist.)

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Whatever happened to Mark II?

[yanpa]

The Devlin only knows...