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...
It’s a good thing Alley Insider rummages through 10-K’s - so we don’t have to (then again, our full time job isn’t to, well, rummage through 10-K’s): turns out Time Warner’s $5B revenue unit Time Magazines will be laying off about 100 people or so. Time is one of the most successful and profitable B2C print companies with 150 publications in the US and the UK.
Can the news get any worst for print? continue reading...
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