WEJO/ROJO: How the hell do you keep your site running when "Free is Killing Me" is destroying web publishing ?
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-porn10-2009aug10,0,862386,full.story
WEJO/ROJO: How the hell do you keep your site running when "Free is Killing Me" is destroying web publishing ?
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-porn10-2009aug10,0,862386,full.story
Well they don't have much in overheads do they? Most of the content is provided for free by people like you and me.
Loved this quote:
"It never crossed our minds that we'd be competing with people who just give it away for free."
after reading that article all I can think is "that really blows"...
there is an ad on EVERY page... usually multiple ads at that.
this? ... is content?
Free is the new business reality
(although 'almost free' is a better term)
read some seth godin or pick up The Long Tail
Free is the new paradigm.
Freedom
NYT and WAP will soon try the 'pay me now' model. It will fail miserably. There's no need to pay dildo English majors when we have billions of humans out there willing to write, photograph, and video news events for free.
Yeah, and when the BroJos start letting site visitors write the front page news here (wikiletsrun?) it'll go down the tubes faster than Bolt can empty a syringe.
it doesn't matter to rich kids like we/ro
did you ever notice how many times they link to a print publication? It's easy to maintain a site when someone else does the work. The content of Letsrun.com would be diminished if they couldn't like to print publications.
why is the word porn in the middle of that link?
cool beans man wrote:
did you ever notice how many times they link to a print publication? It's easy to maintain a site when someone else does the work. The content of Letsrun.com would be diminished if they couldn't like to print publications.
not sure what that means
I like the front page now, with the photos spread throughout the content.
The front page looks much better than before.
Where does Wejo/Rejo get the FREE Getty pics that are on the home page ?
On
I tried to look for an index which would have a link per meet but there is no index for meets.
Nice that I can download and save the FREE Getty pictures.
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