Highlights from Rafat Ali’s conversation with Demand Media’s Shawn Colo, Discovery’s Bruce Campbell, Associated Content’s Patrick Keane, About’s Cella Irvine, and AOL’s Marty Moe: —Gutters: Are the panel members—whose companies are sometimes referred to as “content farms”—driving the value of content to the “gutter?” Colo: No; “We’re adding value by…

What can you expect at paidContent 2010: Discussing the Economics of Content? Just what we promised when we announced our first namesake conference: a forward-looking discussion of the major issues and opportunities facing us, staying away from the religious arguments that often arise when discussing the topic of paid content,…

Scott Meyer stepped down last February as About.com CEO. Since then, the New York Times Co (NYSE: NYT). unit has been run by NYTCo’s top digital exec Martin Nisenholtz with Ron McCoy handling day-to-day operations. Now the company has gone outside for a successor: Cella Irvine, most recently chief administrative…