Yesterday, BubbleGeneration’s Umair Haque set off a storm by suggesting that tech blog networks are peaking. I agree that the signal-to-noise ratio in the technology blog network space has gone down considerably. While many of these blogs are hiring from traditional media, established publications are firing back with their own blogs and blog networks. CNET for one has been very aggressive, even appointing blogger Dan Farber to become editor in chief at News.com (of course, Farber is so much more than a mere blogger).
In fact, in the past year, many of these technology blogs have gone from being a one-site, one-man operation to a multi-site property hiring large operational and editorial teams. In a few instances, companies have even raised considerable funding. The quest to build an audience and generate ad revenues has pitted many of these sites in a competitive and cooperative dynamic that might indeed suggest that most of these sites have peaked. continue reading...
Now that News Corp.’s acquisition of Dow Jones is a fait accompli, I wonder what fallouts, if any, we will see amongst competitors.
Thomson and Pearson will be under the spotlight to react, but what about GE whose CNBC franchise will be well within Rupert Murdoch’s cross-hairs as he unleashes Fox Business Channel. continue reading...
Came across something interesting off Valleywag.
Brad Greenspan is nuts, and we admire him for it. continue reading...
