I know we like to give Timesland a lot of crap, but it’s only because we care. I mean, you can’t help but laugh just a little watching old media behemoths take their first awkward steps into the wonderful world of the intarwebz. Remember at the end of 54% of 80’s movies where the kids teach the principal how to do the robot? Yeah, it’s something like that, except with fewer track suits and electronic drums. Better late than never and all that, and we’re here to help, but it’s not going to happen without us laughing our asses off. That’s what you get for being a dick all these years, dad.

Whatever. If you like watching big companies try to figure out shit on the internet that most of us figured out about five years ago, then spend a lot of time at tampabay.com. The most recent example of this seems to be the disappearance of comments on the breaking news blog. The last post with comments seems to be this one, and I can only imagine that pr0n spam comment had someone over at Tmesland freaking the fuck out. Response? Kill the comments until we can figure out how to deal with this new scourge the kids are calling “spam.” Ah, growing pains. I’m sure they’ll get this figured out. I mean, it only took a few weeks for someone over there to sift through the Typepad docs and figure out what a trackback was.

Like I said, we laugh because we care, and we here at the Splog don’t want Timesland to have to figure all this out on its own. We’re happy to act as new media consultants. Times, we await your call. We want in on that sweet old media money. I hear it smells like leather and Old Spice.