Comments on: Is demand media a content farm?

By: richard macmanus - StartTags.com

richard macmanus - StartTags.com — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:54:01 +0000

[...] as to call it stunning, as Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web does. It is pretty slick, though. …Is demand media a content farm? webdesignability.comRichard MacManus from ReadWriteWeb in his article content farms: why media, blogs and google should [...]

By: terrydunn

terrydunn — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:59:55 +0000

…and that’s why demand media is doing so well. They are providing content people want to read. After all, quality is subjective. It’s one of these slippery words that’s quite difficult to define.

By: terrydunn

terrydunn — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:59:00 +0000

By: Charley

Charley — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:26:30 +0000

I agree, Terry. People do vote with their eyeballs. What some of the people who consider themselves “quality” content writers don’t seem to realize is that a lot of what EHow has on their site IS what people want to see. I read the other articles about Demand Studios and it cracks me up. Everyone is just oh-so-sure that what they consider “quality” will win out in the end. How out of touch with reality can they be? Every day there is a real-time tracker of what people are searching for in the major search engines. And you know what? What people are searching for are the very things these “quality” buffs criticize. It is the very stuff the content mills provide. In fact, the number one searched item right this minute on Yahoo is “Sarah Jessica Parker.” Number 2? “The Avatar Movie”

THAT is what the eyeballs want to see, not what a handful of former journalists and editors THINK they want to see. These dinosaurs need to wake up.

By: Charley

Charley — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:26:00 +0000

THAT is what the eyeballs want to see, not what a handful of former journalists and editors THINK they want to see. These dinosaurs need to wake up.