Comments on: New Yorker’s Auletta: ‘Much Of What AOL Publishes Is Piffle’ http://paidcontent.org/2011/01/17/419-new-yorkers-auletta-much-of-what-aol-publishes-is-piffle/ The economics of digital content Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: tagthatstock http://paidcontent.org/2011/01/17/419-new-yorkers-auletta-much-of-what-aol-publishes-is-piffle/#comment-81737 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:29:43 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/01/17/419-new-yorkers-auletta-much-of-what-aol-publishes-is-piffle/#comment-81737 message i got in the article is journalist are feeling pressure to perform or aol will simply go to the streets and get bloggers to provide content at a cheaper price,,, and prolly more reflective of what the readers want.

seems like a lotta hate from the writer.

]]> By: Staci D. Kramer http://paidcontent.org/2011/01/17/419-new-yorkers-auletta-much-of-what-aol-publishes-is-piffle/#comment-81736 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:04:32 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/01/17/419-new-yorkers-auletta-much-of-what-aol-publishes-is-piffle/#comment-81736 @John Sorry if you found it “totally convoluted” but I was trying to raise
the problem without a he-said-he said rundown of what’s going on with them.
It’s a problem to have two key assets warring with each other because the
two are involved in a public spat that, in the short term, is drawing
attention away from Armstrong’s message in tech/media circles and in the
near/long term keeps AOL from making the most of having strong tech blogs in
house.

As for the term “step-sibs” — in other circumstances, I might call them
corporate siblings.

]]> By: John http://paidcontent.org/2011/01/17/419-new-yorkers-auletta-much-of-what-aol-publishes-is-piffle/#comment-81735 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:51:35 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/01/17/419-new-yorkers-auletta-much-of-what-aol-publishes-is-piffle/#comment-81735 Interesting point, Joe. But I have to say that this paragraph is totally convoluted:
“TechCrunch and Engadget are barely mentioned in Auletta’s post but it’s not hard to see the melodrama of the tech step-sibs making a cameo if only the timing were different. The company can’t afford the distraction. Armstrong’s latest pitch is hard enough to get across without being drowned out from inside.”

]]> By: Joe Taylor Jr. http://paidcontent.org/2011/01/17/419-new-yorkers-auletta-much-of-what-aol-publishes-is-piffle/#comment-81734 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:15:11 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/01/17/419-new-yorkers-auletta-much-of-what-aol-publishes-is-piffle/#comment-81734 TechCrunch is bad for AOL if it keeps trying to incite a war with Engadget. But if those are the only AOL publications with strong personalities, everything else gets watered down under blanket brand names.

]]> By: John http://paidcontent.org/2011/01/17/419-new-yorkers-auletta-much-of-what-aol-publishes-is-piffle/#comment-81733 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:07:24 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/01/17/419-new-yorkers-auletta-much-of-what-aol-publishes-is-piffle/#comment-81733 Could someone put this in plain English? “Step-sibs’? What does the writer man in this graph, taht TechCrunch and Engadget are bad for AOL?
TechCrunch and Engadget are barely mentioned in Auletta’s post but it’s not hard to see the melodrama of the tech step-sibs making a cameo if only the timing were different. The company can’t afford the distraction. Armstrong’s latest pitch is hard enough to get across without being drowned out from inside.

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