Blogs Are Eating Tech Media Alive 247
Heinz writes with an article in Forbes on how advertising in tech media is drying up and going — where else? — into specialist blogs and Google. "Silicon Valley is booming again. But if you work in tech media, there's blood on the floor. Take Red Herring. It hung onto its offices after getting the eviction notice earlier this month. But gossip site Valleywag is breaking story after story not just on its beat — but about its woes. Meanwhile, bigger publications are hurting too: Time Warner's Business 2.0 saw ad pages drop 21.8% through March from the same period a year ago; PC Magazine's editor in chief walked out the door after ad pages fell 38.8% over the same period; and one-time online powerhouse CNET is reporting growing losses even as the companies it covers flourish. It may be happening in tech first, but there's no reason the same thing won't happen, eventually, in every media niche."
They waste money on editors (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not blogs, but forums (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, blogs are great. (Score:1, Funny)
It doesn't matter whether you're a hardened and experienced veteran of the industry (any industry), or a 14-year-old who has read some magazine articles and chatted with 1337 d00dz. Fame will be yours.
Oh wait, what's that? Not even your mom will read your blog? Ah well, just keep "publishing" anyway. The whole Universe wants to hear about your Theory of Rap, or how that one girl in Biology class is hot and you just know she's gonna notice you this year.
Yep, blogs are the way of the future.
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from the advertising-in-tech-media-is-drying-up dept.
CmdrTaco writes with articles from various specialist blogs covering the closing of Slashdot and its affiliates, due to the large decrease in ad revenue that has moved on to real blogs with commentary consisting of real substance and editorial content, instead of Soviet Russia, Netcraft, All your base, you must be new here, natalie portman, and other internet memes. Users will have two weeks to burn all their Karma, and subscribers will be priveledged to know that their remaining subscriptions will pay for the editors' unemployment.
> slashdot, memes, karmaburning, yes, no, wontsomeonethinkofthechildren (tagging beta)
Re:They waste money on editors (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not blogs, but forums (Score:5, Funny)
So while blogs are eating tech media alive, forums prefer to have tech media medium rare topped with firewire sauce, with a side of tarballs and microchips, washed down with a glass of wine... or something like that.
Re:And when they pretend to be bloggers too (Score:1, Funny)
See. You could just have stopped right there.
Re:Not blogs, but forums (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Good (Score:4, Funny)
That's terrible! The government will probably confuse it with STEM cells and cut off funding.
Re:Not blogs, but forums (Score:3, Funny)
Found it: http://www.google.com/ [google.com]