Selling News.com to bloggers? No, thanks.
Monday, April 7th, 2008 - 6:30PM
James Nicholson over at Seeking Alpha thinks CNET should sell off its tech news division, News.com, to some other network of “top-tier tech blogs” (Engadget, Tech Crunch, etc. are named), and keep the best writers of the defunct brand to build a better blog network at CNET. Um, yeah, no thanks. That plan makes no sense, not only because the only thing that makes News.com any good is its editors, but (and no offense to all my pals at CNET) the editorial and business models of that division are becoming increasingly deprecated. So yeah, in that regard it does make sense to start thinking about a sale, I suppose — especially considering how much work (read: catching up) Dan Farber’s got to do about right now.
What caused the big jump in the Summer of 07 for both sites?
Comment by Vance — Tuesday, April 8, 2008 @ 10:05 am
BTW, speaking of bloggers and editors, here is an article you must read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/technology/06sweat.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Tell Veronica to take out good life insurance on you! :0)
And, um, take it easy, I guess!
Comment by Vance — Tuesday, April 8, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
See my Twitter on the topic: “That NYT “Writers Blog Till They Drop” story? Lame. Totally misses the point. And takes for granted every other stressful job ever.”
Comment by Ryan Block — Tuesday, April 8, 2008 @ 4:14 pm