A new, serious approach

With Bayraider happy to churn out blog posts by the thousand, it gives Rummaging an opportunity to take a step back.

Having spoken to the Shiny team, it seems they have identified a fantastic business model, neatly tailored to the cutting edge of corporate-nano-blogging - a captive army of unpaid children who will churn out posts for food.

(This is them recruiting bloggers in Camden last week)

Rummaging applauds this model, as it means we don't carry all the responsibility for reporting the eBay news. We can take a more reflective stance, draw out the trends and spend more time on serious analysis.

It can become the site where serious debate takes place - our head won't be turned by every passing fancy like a child in a supermarket, waving "look at this, look at this" at the dayglo shelves of industrial confectionery.

Our first step, as part of our new, serious approach, is to draw to a logical conclusion the stories that started with a man selling a temporary tattoo on his forehead, then a woman selling a temporary tatto on her cleavage.

Advertise on my penis.