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Everything you say is fact, and yet I completely disagree with your interpretation of the facts. The original "boring" idea would be bankrupt by now if it wasn
by biohacker42 17y ago
Everything you say is fact, and yet I completely disagree with your interpretation of the facts.
The original "boring" idea would be bankrupt by now if it wasn't for the website. So yes, they are using the web as advertising, that doesn't mean it's not the key to their existence.
And they are making money by selling a physical product, there's a lesson there too. How many free websites are funded by selling shwag? Isn't Joel's free blog selling fogbugz? There's a pattern here.
- brandnewlow 17y ago"The original idea would be bankrupt if it wasn't for the website." Citation needed. The point of my comment was to point out that all the stuff about being "fast, lean, quick, lo-fi, bloggy" or whatever news buzzwords you hear bandied about as being the solution are not in fact the solution in and of themselves since they have nothing to do with actually making money. At the end of the day, Politico's a lot like College Humor. It has a content web site it uses to promote a physical product where it actually makes money (T-shirts in CH's case). I don't know that there's much to learn from that example.