<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, sleaze]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, sleaze]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/sleaze http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/sleaze <![CDATA[Subvert and Profit doomed to failure and a beating]]> NICK DOUGLAS — Class, let's learn a simple rule: Copyright violation? Still a viable business model. Explicitly violating the terms of service for a social site with a dedicated userbase that can spot and ban abusers? Not gonna work. Subvert and Profit, a just-launched market for buying and selling votes on Digg.com (a buck to buy a digg, 50 cents to sell), is the Mechanical Turk that doesn't work.]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=249075&view=rss&microfeed=true