By Ray Pride Pride@moviecitynews.com
Reframer: Sunday LA Times logs blog
In the Sunday LA Times’ Calendar, Rachel Abramowitz writes a long takeout on Defamer’s Mark Lisanti, luxuriating in “hip, edgy” words like “flick”: “It’s almost exactly like crack addiction,” says the affable 31-year-old from his command station, a Sony computer in his home office — a modest Los Feliz apartment. He doesn’t have air conditioning or any pictures on the wall of his office save for a black-and-white publicity still of Ralph Macchio in the forgotten 1980s flick Crossroads. He does, however, have a site meter on his computer that shows him how many page views he’s getting… “I check it all the time. Any given hour if you ask me how many page views I’ve had in the last hour, I could probably tell you. That’s how our performance is benchmarked, so it turns us into crack-addicted McMonkeys.” … According to Technorati… Defamer was recently the 69th most popular blog out of an estimated 14 million blogs worldwide.” Straining to make Lisanti seem—slightly icky?—Abramowitz writes: He’s wearing a T-shirt and jeans and the slightly grubby sheen of someone who’s just spent the entire day inside blogging… In his short career… Lisanti has posted about 3,800 items — about 12 a day, not including weekends. He says that if an item lies in his inbox, or his consciousness, for more than 6 hours, then it’s usually too old to get on the blog. “Who’s going to want to hear about 6 hours ago?” he posits, much like in another era when Hamlet asked “to be or not to be?” [More heavy lifting at the link.]
