content farms are why we can’t have nice things (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Feb 08, 2013

What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today:
• This is why we can’t have nice things, because content farm sites are grabbing everyone else’s handcrafted content. Surviving the Media Aggregation Economy

• On the other hand, perhaps the collapse in online ad revenue means content farms will wither away. We can hope, anyway… Another blog post that won’t make any money

• There goes the rest of your day… PULP-O-MIZER: the custom pulp magazine cover generator

(hat-tip for today’s links: tordotcom)

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PJK

Fri, Feb 08, 2013 7:02am

And my day had just started: Johanson!

PJK

reply to PJK

Fri, Feb 08, 2013 7:04am

That second part should have read : [ shakes fist angrily at the sky, Colbert style ] Johanson!

I guess that teaches me not to use the “smaller than” and “greater than” symbols in a comment.

RogerBW

Fri, Feb 08, 2013 9:24am

There was a collapse in online ad revenue back around 2002, too. Sadly, it just meant more desperate plastering of larger ads over formerly-useful sites.