Patrick O’Keefe

I was interviewed by Blog Network Watch.

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The thing about Chitika is that you need to build up a big list of keywords. Otherwise, you are seeing the same products over and over again… and that’s no good. I am going to work on that when I get some time.

I e-mailed a suggestion to them, as well. From my e-mail:

I think that would help with the randomization.

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It’s up!

Listening to it, I think my voice lacks feeling and passion at various points. It was my first time recording anything like this, so that will get better. I’m excited to get it going.

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Audio here and here.

Updating what I wrote yesterday, Puff was on Hot 97 just a bit ago, setting the record straight. He brought paperwork. The contract, cancelled checks and everything. He basically killed it, so if you’re at all interested, you should listen. He doesn’t own 80%, he owns 20%. It’s not a “lifetime” deal, like they said. They have 5 albums left on it. I don’t see any reason for him to get on the radio, bring all these papers and lie. So, I believe him.

On the low, garbage stuff they said about Biggie and relating Biggie’s death to Puff and talking about Biggie’s publishing - he wouldn’t talk. Instead, he passed it to Biggie’s mom.

Ms. Wallace on Lil’ Cease: “He needs to watch it.” “Lil’ Cease needs to cool it.” The Ms. Wallace part was insane. She said that we (the estate) are “very happy” with the publishing and are very “comfortable”.

He schooled people to the business. It’s not evil or bad, it’s the business. Hopefully anyone who was gullible enough to fall for that stuff will listen up and this will help them understand.

Some more thoughts: Brandon made a good point and Diddy said it today. It’s an investment. I buy stock in Microsoft. Diddy bought stock in The Lox. Sometimes stocks go up. Sometimes they go down. Diddy has invested in people that have not done squat and he’s lost all of his money. I’ve done the same in the stock market. Either way, the company can’t come back to me and say “hey, we want our shares back.” That’s not how it works. Puff owns stock in The Lox, Inc. It’s nonsense for them to try to get out of their own business deal this way, by stating half truths and outright lies and then throwing other artists names into it further proving that they don’t know how things work.

They said Puff should thank them for the Benjamins. He did today at the end. But, honestly, they need to thank Puff for allowing them to do that record. Like he said, it was their biggest record. They perform it at their shows. That song put them on the map. Puff let them on it.

Anyway, that’s all I have to say now. Puff again (and again and again) said that he’d meet with them. We’ll see if that happens.

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Here (D Block Announcement).

Quite a little event. Jadakiss sounded like he might have been drunk or something, talking about the double doors on a refrigerator. Nonetheless, The Lox stuff is old. Short story: Diddy owns half of their publishing for life (supposedly). Whenever they release a record, he gets paid - a lot. That’s the contract they signed. At the start of the interview, they said they were to blame first and foremost. Then their lawyers, then Diddy. Yet, they spent 99% of the show slamming Diddy. Why? Because that’s the angle to play with the public. They should have spent it telling everyone how stupid they were if it is such a bad deal.

They were signed to Bad Boy back in the mid 90s. They wanted out. They did the same stuff on the radio and Diddy let them out of their recording contract. But, he still owns their publishing. I like Jadakiss (as an artist), but I haven’t really bought any of his/their music since they left Bad Boy.

I’m surprised Diddy called in because he usually doesn’t bother with that stuff, which is generally a good thing. Nonetheless, it was interesting. Jadakiss was threatening Diddy’s life (in a vague way so he could say later that he wasn’t doing it, when even Styles said he was doing it), saying that no security could stop him from pushing a refrigerator off a building (onto Diddy). lol. Diddy said it: “All that throwing a refrigerator, you’re gonna kill - y’all ain’t killing nobody, man.” lol.

The thing is, Diddy may eventually release it or may not. If it’s me - after this event, forget The Lox. They can jump in a lake, unless I’m pressed to do it. They signed this contract. It’s not “wrong” for Diddy to honor the contract that they signed. It’s not being a thief, it’s not being a coward, it’s not any of that that they wanna push. They’re just saying this stuff to manipulate people’s natural, gullible emotions. A lot of people will jump on it and say that Diddy is doing wrong. And that’s one of the things that is wrong with the public. They are, generally, swayed too easily to be against the rich and the powerful. The Lox screwed up if they don’t like their deal NOW - they liked it enough to sign it 10 years ago. For them to do this publicity garbage to try to get Diddy to cave is immature nonsense. For them to throw around the names of artists who have left Diddy or had issues with their lives is out of line. For them to say that B.I.G.’s death was related to Diddy is out of line (I doubt they actually meant it like that).

Then, what do you know? Lil’ Cease calls up. After he’d been making comments about Diddy here and there and he then he wanted to be on the Duets album and he wants this and he wants that… so what? And Mase calls up. Who cares about Mase? I used to be a big, big fan - but now I’m done with him. I still like his Bad Boy music (and older) and his new music is fine just because I’ve always liked his music, etc. but after he left and then came back, did the clean music and then blamed Puff for it - that’s nonsense. He said he did that music because he had to do it. So, what’s that mean - it’s not real? I bought it - does that make me a sucker for buying his album? I’m done with Mase.

Some people will say “Diddy is so rich, why can’t he just let him have their publishing?” That’s crazy. There isn’t a point where you stop growing or stop trying to make more money in normal, appropriate ways - which is what this is. Hey, with that logic, why stop there? Why doesn’t Diddy just give everyone a million dollars until he has enough left to live for the rest of his life and then leave? Let’s put a limit on how much money you can make, while we’re at it. I have had a few (just a few), random, crazy people say things like “you’re selfish, look at all of those users you got.” Right. I built those userbases. And I want more. That’s only normal and healthy.

So, why do I feel this way? Because people pull this stuff on me. People criticize me online for this or that. People I’ve banned from my sites usually or people who have some sort of bogus reason for hating me. They lie, they manipulate and they manipulate people’s feelings toward people in a position of responsibility. They all jump in one after the other, just like today with Diddy. But, at the end of the day, who are these people? How legitimate is what they are saying? It’s not. They’re just trying to manipulate public opinion to put pressure on Diddy to right their wrong.

People like to say “what about this guy who used to be on staff at Patrick’s site - see how he left and they hate each other? Yeah, I was right - he really is an idiot.” Bull. That’s called life. I promote people to my staff and I make decisions. Sometimes they don’t work out. People change, people have a falling out. That happens, that’s a part of life. It’s easy for idiots to point to those things and say “see, he’s bad”. I’m no record industry expert, but I’d guess it’s the same for that industry. You sign artists and artists are people - with some people, one moment they love you and the next they hate you. That’s the way it works. I’ve had to get rid of popular staff members, I’ve had others leave after disagreements - I’ve banned the number one poster on my community before. Does that mean I’m wrong? Heck no. I’m not. I go through the same stuff (from the outside, looking on, of course) - that’s why I sympathize. It’s easy to get on the radio, get online and criticize someone as powerful as Diddy and have people agree with you. Nothing brave about it. It’s always easy to get on a medium and throw stones at someone like that. It’s easy for you to get online and criticize the administrator of a community, as well. Always easy to criticize the boss. And, hey, sometimes the boss deserves the criticism. But, don’t just fall for it. Just because he is the boss - that doesn’t make him evil.

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Over at Warner Urban, the song Beef (by The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Mobb Deep and Diddy) was released as well as the video for Hold Ya Head (by The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Bob Marley). Good stuff.

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The Community Admin Show is now a reality. It was announced as the 40th podcast on The Podcast Network.

The first show will be out in a few days. So, if you’d like, head over and subscribe.

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Well, I accepted the MySpace invite. Here is my profile.

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So, I have a new user sign up at one of my communities. Obviously, our User Guidelines explicitly say that we do not allow advertising. So, this person creates a post (their first and only post) and says that there is a new community. He mentions the site and asks people to come over to this community. I remove his post, document and send him a polite message making him aware of the fact that it is not allowed (as advertising).

His response: What was wrong with the post?

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LOL.

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:)

Via Cox & Forkum.

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