Not A Pro Blog Acquired By ProBlogger

Jordan Cooper — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:55:40 +0000

For Immediate Release:

NEW ALBANY, Indiana. (April 1, 2010) – Not A Pro Blog, the web’s worst blog tips site, today announced that it has been acquired by ProBlogger.net.

This acquisition will be a part of Darren Rowse’s extension of the ‘ProBlogger’ brand and a precursor to his new paid forum for the hopelessly unsuccessful, NotAProBlogger.com – where broke bloggers sabotage each other.

“Blogging continues to grow in popularity, but since no one actually implements my advice – I might as well hedge my bets.” said Rowse on one of his horridly boring UStream chats today. “Not A Pro Blog will put an amazing array of obstacles in front of those copycats wanting to overtake my market dominance.”

“What better brand to align these fundamentally flawed concepts with than Jordan Cooper, a blogger that has consistently taken my advice, yet thoroughly parodied & ridiculed me and my colleagues for just under five months.”

“Some have called me a ‘traitor’ for even considering selling my soul to ProBlogger,” said Cooper, the founder of Not A Pro Blog, “but I’d be a fool not to allow the my brand to seep in, eat away and completely destroy one of the world’s most influential blogs. I’m excited to see how far Darren will fall going backwards.”

The acquisition of Not A Pro Blog will allow Jordan to concentrate on his other projects including his main site – FM-Britain, which peddles worthless digital products about a video game that poor British kids become addicted to quite easily – and an upcoming project – NonScalableBlogging.com with Chris Brogan.

Jordan Cooper will remain a part of Not A Pro Blog where he plans to launch a product with Rowse entitled “31MWWW” – 31 Minutes to Write the Worst Weblog – an alternative to the successful series of a similar name, but geared for those who have no clue and like it that way.

Last minute update:

Upon hearing the news of this merger, Google has immediately voided their purchase of ProBlogger from earlier today.

“Unfortunately, Darren Rowse’s haphazard acquisition of Not A Pro Blog significantly undermines our positioning with his brand”, a representative of the internet giant stated. “Competing against ourselves is not in our business nature, as we already have a firmly planted presence in the ‘fail whale’ marketplace… with Google Buzz and Google Wave.”

Do Kids Have To Wait Until They Grow Up?

Jordan Cooper — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:00:16 +0000

Posted in Uncategorized

The mainstream media always sensationalizes news stories about child predators and pornography on the internet. They seem to urge parents to closely monitor their kid’s computer activity and put up safeguard software to be especially vigilant. Although I’m not a parent myself, I can understand their biological need to protect their offspring from potential harm – but are we doing so at the cost of shielding them from the greatest possible resource tool humankind has ever created?

We’re no longer living in a time where life’s path is cookie-cutter and easy to predict chronologically. In the “old” days, it was about going to college, scoring a great entry-level job at a top company, buying a house with white picket fences, marrying your sweetheart and having 2.5 kids before repeating the process all over again.

If you take a look at this list of young entrepreneurs making money online, it’s easily apparent that the “road less traveled” is becoming more and more standard fare than it once was. Regular blogs that I read for valuable help include Teenius, Blogussion and DaneBlogger which are all run by bloggers who can’t even buy a beer yet in this country! And they’re doing better than me! So why are parents still predominantly raising their kids with a notion that there’s only one path to success?

Looking at problems faced by young entrepreneurs online, it seems like most facets deal with adults who can’t handle the fact that kids are much smarter and savvier nowadays. Children have been given more tools to communicate, more access to information and more freedom to express themselves. Instead of shielding them from the potential pitfalls of this open stream, let’s look to embrace the technology and combine it with their likes, hobbies and passions. Even if it’s a passing flash-of-the-pan activity, you’ll be setting your children up for greater success in the future. This could give them vital experience and skills in an area that can translate well into their eventual choice of study and career.

Parents: What are you doing to get your children involved with their passions?