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| Monday, October 16, 2006 |
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Newsocopia 
| | What's happening to news is what's happening to everything. The readers are becoming the writers. Anything the LA Times does that fails to embrace this phenomenon will not work. |
| | Nick Carr makes a good point about the enduring values (and sacrifices) that professional reporters bring to the table; but he misses Dave's main point: readers who write will contribute, and do it abundantly. And Dave's also right that's it's a mistake for any paper, or for any incumbent jounalistic enterprise, not to embrace that development. |
Crash the party like it's 1999
| | Bubble 1.0 was gassed by the belief that advertising would pay for everything. |
| | The difference is that there really is a lot of advertising money in Bubble 2.0. This time the market for VC money is driven by knowing there's money out there, rather than just hoping there is. |
| | But what if there's a better way for sellers and buyers to find each other? What if there's a better way for the two sides to relate than through a mechanism which, at its best, involves massive inefficiency and waste? (And don't think paying just for results doesn't mean there isn't waste. It's there in spades, even if you don't pay for it.) |
| | What's amazing to me is that we've been pickled in Advertising Mentality for so long that we can hardly imagine any other way to reach buyers. |
| | So here's a thought. Rather than just reaching for buyers, how about giving buyers a better way to reach sellers? |
| | That's the idea behind VRM. |
Get a real job
| | I don¹t trust companies that try to fool people. |
| | We should generally abhor this kind of marketing. It encourages us to think the worst, not the best, about bloggers. |
| | But is PayPerPost a cancer on the blogosphere, as Jason suggests? I¹m less certain, largely because the company is doing in a public way what others are surely doing without bragging about it. If this outfit is cancer, it¹s like a basal cell carcionoma, a less virulent form of skin cancer, easily handled and not normally dangerous; the really slippery operators are like colon cancer, which often has few symptoms until it¹s too late. (We could take this metaphor further, but let¹s not.) |
| | Oh, but lets. PayPerPost makes you an asshole. Your job is to serve shit. You reduce yourself from a human being to an orifice for excreting messages. |
| | Posting for pay is worse than sick. It's stupid. If it's money that you want, there are much better ways to blog for it. For example, by writing usefully about anything you know and care about, or by exposing your good work (at whatever you do), with frequent links to others who write and care about the same things. In the long run, you'll make more money because of blogging than with it. |
| | Actually, if money is all you want out of blogging, please don't bother. |
Which is why I settle for less
| | Tony Pierce: if kissing girls is what youre after get used to stupidity. |
Delayed in Dulles
| | My morning flight to Denver had its plane swapped, from a 777 to a 767 — a smaller plane, meaning that many people would have no choice about being bumped in any case. So, when they asked for flight bumpee volunteers to come forward from the very long line, I was the first one at the counter. My destination is Santa Barbara, so I knew there would be alternatives. Mine would be a 12:55 flight through San Francisco. So, for rebooking I got a free ticket on a flight to use sometime in the next year. Not bad, really. |
| | I still get home in time for dinner. And meanwhile I get to catch up on some work, whilst sitting in an airport lounge. |
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