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Too bad we could never figure out monetization and attention economy competition for publishing
by lobsterthief 2y ago
Too bad we could never figure out monetization and attention economy competition for publishing
- wombatpm 2y agoThey gave it all up. Major publishers had teams of sales people with deep relationships with all of the ad spenders. They gave that up to doubleclick so they could sell eyeballs to purveyors of penis enhancement drugs for $0.25 per eyeball. Then per 1000 eyeballs, then per 1000 clicks. Then they let Google scrape everything for SEO. They never should have followed online content, they should have led.
- 1oooqooq 2y agoI think Wikipedia filled that niche pretty well. if we didn't have the rat race everyone could just contribute the best knowledge and content and free software to the world. but instead of fixing the rat race we focus on literally everything else to conform to it.