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On the link economy
- nfnaaron 17y agoNewspapers and other media are losing my money, and probably others', because they mostly don't sell anything I want. How hard is that to understand? Heck, they're mostly not even giving away anything that I want. HN gives away exactly what I want, which is links to interesting or important content, and intelligent discussion of that content. HN gets whatever HN gets out of my visit to HN; whatever that is, it does not take a single cent away from the linkees, because I would never get to most HN linked articles without HN. As Jarvis states, it's up to each linkee to extract whatever they want from my visit, and to get me to come back directly. If a site is relevant to me I might come back, but it's no failure for a site not to be relevant to everyone. Given relevance, it's up to a site to be worthwhile. Whining and roadblocking is not an effective business strategy. If you want to make money in a space, make sure that space exists, and be excellent at working in that space. Otherwise, sell vacuum cleaners.