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Blogs Are Eating Tech Media Alive

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wagging-the-dog dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Not blogs, but forums by D4MO · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Thank you. Now I know where to go so that I can remotely discharge my firearms.

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  2. Re:Yeah, blogs are great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Don't say this on Slashdot, even if it's absolutely true. This is the place where loserboy nerds masturbate in their own feces, fling shit around and babble about how much they're important and how everybody should listen to them.

    They need to compensate for all the beating-ups they have been subjected to. Their arms still hurt from being twisted. Their heads ache from being smashed against locker doors. They still have bloodshot eyes, from being stuck into unflushed toilet bowls and held there for minutes.

    Just imagine their plight. At night they patherically try to live out their loserboy fantasies by publishing irrelevant ramblings on their pityful blogs, by day they are bullied, tormented, beaten up, forced to eat dog excrements in front of their whole class, and then the video of them, running crying and bawling along the school hallways without their pants appears on YouTube.

  3. Re:They waste money on editors by reddburn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nice response. I like how you took the time to refute his argument. With skills like that, you must be a journalism major? Nah. Fox News reporter.
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