Kurt Greenbaum Is A Pussy!

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Welcome to www.KurtGreenbaumIsAPussy.com, where we chronicle how an intolerant St. Louis douchebag pissed off the entire fucking Internet.

This used to be the biggest
 pussy in St. Louis...

...now this is.

Step 1:  Get Hired As the "Director of Social Media" for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

I'm so cool, I'm not wearing a jacket and tie!

Where you should theoretically start learning about how the Internet works, especially social media.

Instead, he writes the "Talk of the Day" blog, which is useless drivel.

He also writes a personal blog called STL Social Media Guy, where he posts his resume.

He appears to want to be known as an expert on social media in the St. Louis area.  This goes badly.

Step 2:  Be a Blogger and Neglect to Register Your Own Domain Name:

Now we own www.KurtGreenbaum.com, which naturally points here at www.KurtGreenbaumIsAPussy.com.  What a dumbass.

Step 3:  Drop Hints You're a Tolerant Guy:

Surely I can bridge the conservative, religious, intolerant culture of St. Louis and the culture of the Internet, which is everything St. Louis is not...

Join an Episcopal Church That Preaches Tolerance:

St. Martin's Episcopal Church - What We Believe:

"#11:  So we don’t tell each other what to do or make judgments about each other. We do try to be supportive of each other. We try to be “a church in which there are no outcasts” as our former Presiding Bishop puts it."

Post a Profanity-Laced Video by Your Co-Workers, Explaining It's "Satire":

Yes, bloggers, we can laugh at ourselves

Note:  As of 2009-11-22, this video can no longer be viewed by the public (someone's trying to hide it).  We've got a copy here for you. 

Step 4:  Ask a Loaded Question on the Internet and Beg Every Juvenile to Deliver the Punch Line:

What could possibly go wrong?

What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever eaten? And did you like it?, by Kurt Greenbaum, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 11.13.2009 9:23 am

5...4...3...2...1...

"Pussy!"

Think of the children.  Please.

Step 5:  Become an Intolerant Morality Vigilante and Tattle-Tale, Violate Your Employer's Privacy Policy, Cost Someone Their Job and Then Publicly Gloat About It:

From Post a vulgar comment while you’re at work, lose your job,  by Kurt Greenbaum, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 11.16.2009 2:41 pm  (The same post on his personal blog):

A single vulgar word cost a man his job on Friday.

It all started with Friday’s edition of Talk of the Day, a regular blog on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s website, STLtoday.com. Talk of the Day is exactly that. A conversation around the water-cooler topic of the day. Friday’s edition is often a little lighter. Last week, it was about the strangest things you’ve ever eaten, loosely pegged on a story about deer meat.

By mid-morning, a number of folks had commented about their experiences with Bird’s Nest Soup, octopus, cow brains and rattlesnake. Then, while I was in our 10 a.m. news meeting, someone posted in reply a single word, a vulgar expression for a part of a woman’s anatomy. It was there only a minute before a colleague deleted it.

A few minutes later, the same guy posted the same single-word comment again. I deleted it, but noticed in the WordPress e-mail alert that his comment had come from an IP address at a local school. So I called the school. They were happy to have me forward the e-mail, though I wasn’t sure what they’d be able to do with the meager information it included.

About six hours later, I heard from the school’s headmaster. The school’s IT director took a shine to the challenge. Long story short: Using the time-frame of the comments, our website location and the IP addresses in the WordPress e-mail, he tracked it back to a specific computer. The headmaster confronted the employee, who resigned on the spot.

I’m not identifying the guy who posted the comment because, obviously, I don’t know who it was. I’m not identifying the school because, frankly, it’s not important to the story and I have no interest in embarrassing the people there.

Privacy Policy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which includes this statement:  "We will not share individual user information with third parties unless the user has specifically approved the release of that information."

Step 6:  Get Your Ass Handed to You by the Internet Hate Machine:

The last known photograph of Kurt Greenbaum before he got run over by the Internet.

Search Engines:

St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Reddit:

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Slashdot:

Digg:

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Fark:

The Globe and Mail (Canada):

The Financial Post (Canada):

The Huffington Post:

Gawker:

KMOV St. Louis:

River Front Times - The St. Louis News Blog:

The St. Louis Social Media & Tech Report:

St. Louis Urban Workshop:

Punching Kitty - "The gossip site St. Louis has always deserved!":

St. Louis Blogger's Guild:

Toasted RAV:

Kashmir Hill:

Read Write Web:

Ars Technica:

TechDirt:

The Other Dan(ny) Brown:

Reason Online:

Photography is Not a Crime:

Skreened:

Feel Free to Contact Kurt Greenbaum and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Kurt Greenbaum:

kgreenbaum@post-dispatch.com
kgreenbaum@journalists.org
kurt@igreenbaum.com
Work number: (314) 340-8123

Out of respect for his privacy (and in hope that he'll learn by example), we'll refrain from posting his home address and telephone number here (yes, the ones that he published on his blog).

Kurt Greenbaum's Boss at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Kevin Mowbray
Phone: 314-340-8970
kmowbray@post-dispatch.com

Lee Enterprises, Owner of St. Louis Post Dispatch:

Karen J. Guest, Vice President – Law and Chief Legal Officer
Karen.Guest@lee.net
office: 563.383.2143

Feel Free to Contact Us:

E-mail us:  KurtGreenbaumWebSites@gmail.com