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No, but if you'd like to make a bet on it, and are happy to lose money, I'm probably happy to put $500 on the line, winnings to charity (mine's Partners In Health). What would you like the terms to be?
Sure! 36 months to deadpool. I'd do $200 to NGLTF.
It's really hard to tell if they want to be the future PandoDaily or The New York Times.
(just kidding)
We've completely severed the relationship between us and reality
It's really hard to tell if they want to be the future PandoDaily or The New York Times.
We’ve completely severed the relationship between content and revenue It's a bold claim/goal with, in my experience, a dearth of successful precedent (in cases where there is non-trivial revenue, of course) and tells me the business model will certainly be interesting.
I assume they're expecting to get free content creation from their curated selection of blog posters, and part of to keep 'quality' up offer editorial services. I see some flaws in what they're doing so far. Will have to see how they navigate it all. Certainly be interesting is right.
It's.. a curated collection of blogs? Why can't you just have a blog? I've probably been linked a dozen or so blogs inside that network (always from HN, I've never noticed traction anywhere else), but at no point has there been any cross promotion, so the fact that it was inside svbtle barely seemed to matter.
On 'barely': so far the fast majority of posts that have come out of svbtle have not actually been very good, and the curated 'we are the cream of the internet crop' pretentious feeling you get is not that positive.
Basicially, for me, a blog being inside svbtle seems to have negligible effect, and that effect is a negative one.
Maybe I'm missing the point though.
So I'm just a simple country lad who doesn't understand the big silicon valley city, but I really don't get svbtle. This is coming from someone who is (I imagine) part of 'the masses' who has been linked posts from there but otherwise has no involvement. It's.. a curated collection of blogs? Why can't you just have a blog? I've probably been linked a dozen or so blogs inside that network (always from HN, I've never n…