DL436: Phil From Gunaxin Talks Blog Building, Ethics & Vick Fantasy Morals

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Each week,  I’ll be chatting with a member of the Blogger Fantasy League to talk a little trash, learn about their work and talk about issues in our industry. This week, I play against Phil Van der Vossen of Gunaxin.com. As he calls it, Gunaxin is “stuff for guys” from sports to girls to games to pop culture to food…and everything in between. It’s a men’s lifestyle site, like Maxim, but without paying for all the girlie photos.

We actually talk quite a bit about that idea — taking content from other places and making it your own — and what the ethics are in doing so. If you’ve ever met Phil, read his stuff or listened to him talk on other shows, you know he pulls absolutely zero punches. And if you know anything about me, you know I respect the hell out of people who are willing to call other people out.

So there’s a lot of that — calling out other sites for gaming the system or for taking others’READ MORE