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Why blogs are turning into newspapers and Quora is the future of journalism
- TomOfTTB 16y agoThere are two issues I see here. The first is the quality of answers to "normal guy" questions (e.g. questions anyone could answer). The problem here is answer sites are only as good as how they scale. As has been pointed out several times in the comments of various Quora posts Yahoo Answers wasn't a overrun with Spam on day one. So Quora's future is heavily reliant on how it survives once it does go mainstream. The second issue is the celebrity questions and the "Democratization of Source Material". The problem with his theory is he forgets source information becomes more valuable the more relevant it is. So while Steve Case answering how much all those AOL CDs cost might be interesting it's not going to draw major traffic like Natalie Portman talking about her pregnancy for the first time. News that draws traffic is valuable and celebrities trade it for things of value (favorable coverage, money, etc...) This is true of almost all source material Quora could generate and that's why I don't see it taking on major news agencies anytime soon. I'm not saying Quora isn't a nice web site or that it can't be successful. Just that it's being over hyped.