Content is dead
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Re: Content is dead
#2There are a number of tools built to extract the content from those kinds of pages, did the author try any or just start YOLOing Python scripts?
Re: Content is dead
#3There are a number of tools built to extract the content from those kinds of pages, did the author try any or just start YOLOing Python scripts?
I don't think that's the point of the article though. The author is criticizing the rise of bloated webpages with very little good content.
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#4I agree with the author concerning content and ads, but find it ironic that the article's title is so click-baity and misleading (considering she never implies content is actually dying, just that its business model is).
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#5There are a number of tools built to extract the content from those kinds of pages, did the author try any or just start YOLOing Python scripts?
I don't think that's the point of the article though. The author is criticizing the rise of bloated webpages with very little good content.
Or not so much that, but the practice of putting terrible content up and funding it by selling someone else's soul to the advertising apparatus. And then demanding that you give up that soul, in order to fund "high quality content".
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#6There are a number of tools built to extract the content from those kinds of pages, did the author try any or just start YOLOing Python scripts?
When you can count your lines of Python code on your fingers, it's probably faster to just write up a script than it is to search for existing software.
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#7> today can’t epxect to put out mostly junk filler
I wonder if that's a litmus test to see if people finish reading. Great article, perfect sentiment, last paragraph has the only typo in the entire thing.
And I totally agree. There are shitloads of people on the internet making money from content. Hell, I make some sometimes. If you build a real audience, listen to them, then solve their problems. Then content isn't dead.
If you're trying to be mass media that appeals to everybody and nobody at the same time. Then content is dead.
I mean, shit, look at someone like GaryVee or Casey Neistat, or even Kim Kardashian. They all make shitloads of money from content.
And if you're looking for examples closer to HN home. Look at Amy Hoy, Brennan Dunn, or even Ramit Sethi. They might not make tens of millions, but they def print millions of dollars with their content businesses.
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#8Comparing the Economist to an iPhone to Android switch article is not a fair comparison.
The Wired iPhone2Android article is and was never designed to be content. You shouldn't expect it to be either honestly.
Apple has great content on the subject for free https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201196
The 3rd party link bloat however is spot on
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#9> today can’t epxect to put out mostly junk filler I wonder if that's a litmus test to see if people finish reading. Great article, perfect sentiment, last paragraph has the only typo in the entire thing. And I totally agree. There are shitloads of people on the internet making money from content. Hell, I make some sometimes. If you build a real audience, listen to them, then solve their problems. Then content isn't…
I agree. I think all that's changed is our idea of what content is. The mediums have increased.
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#10We'll know that ad supported content is dead when AOL, or "Aol.", or whatever, and Demand Media, go bust. They will not be missed.
Micropayments are going nowhere. As I've pointed out before, the enthusiasm for micropayments comes from people who want to collect them. There's very little consumer demand for the ability to send somebody a dime.
Subscriptions work only for very high quality content. The Economist, yes; Wired, no. Newspapers with big reporting staffs, yes; pundits, no.
The trend we're seeing in advertising is that only Google and Facebook really matter to advertisers. The third-party ad industry is mostly bottom feeders, and it's getting worse. (See earlier article today about Forbes distributing malware.)