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Definitely not good news for Chris Dixon and the other bubble inflators at Andressen Horowitz. Google Panda: Demand Media FB Feed Change: Buzzfeed Of course,
by jgalt212 12y ago
Definitely not good news for Chris Dixon and the other bubble inflators at Andressen Horowitz.
Google Panda: Demand Media
FB Feed Change: Buzzfeed
Of course, my thesis predicated upon the supposition that Buzzfeed is nothing more than a clickbait farm. There are a significant minority who feel otherwise, but I am not one of them.
- eli 12y agoEspecially in the last year or two, Buzzfeed has been mixing in genuine, quality journalism with their listicles. For example http://www.buzzfeed.com/longform http://www.buzzfeed.com/longform and http://www.buzzfeed.com/politics http://www.buzzfeed.com/politics I think Upworthy is the site that should be concerned: they have far less original content and AFAIK the entire premise is based on social (facebook) sharing.
- jgalt212 12y agothat may be true. but can they get as good at genuine, quality journalism as they are with clickbait? and given the valuations quality journalism companies trade at these days, maybe that's not something they want to devote serious efforts to.