I got invited to write for the Huffington Post today
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I got invited to write for the Huffington Post today
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#3I sympathize and share the author's dislike of this particular business model, however, I am fairly certain the Huffpo staffer addressed didn't read past the first paragraph.
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#4I sympathize and share the author's dislike of this particular business model, however, I am fairly certain the Huffpo staffer addressed didn't read past the first paragraph.
Hopefully they will now that it's trending on HN.
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#5the class of people who own the world and control all the assets may finally begin to see the error of their ways
Their ways? Arianna Huffington didn't cause the current epidemic of narcissism making people willing to write for free to stroke their ego as he aptly noted. She also didn't inherit HuffPo so all that talk about socialism and inheritance tax is just more signalling on the author's part. Which is why they chose him.
If some street hustler challenges you to a game of three card monte you don't need to bother to play, just hand him the money, not because you're going to lose but because you owe him for the insight: he selected you.[1]
He owes them an article on cancer, I believe.
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#6Good for the writer. I have written for Hufpo once before and soon I realized how their model works:
1 - get free content from the writers.
2 - get free marketing and traffic from the writers (who tell their friends and follower about their article they've just posted on the Hufpo)
Most of the articles you write are all hidden in some sub-pages that no one but your friends or google seo would ever find.
edit: formatting.
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#7I can understand the frustration of the author, however, HuffPo is not a government or social entity. It IS part of the free market. I am a huge proponent of the free market, however, that does not mean the free market will be perfect. In the short term, there are fits and starts and cycles that everything goes through, but it is only through the free market that we will progress over the long-term.
Writers are unfortunately caught up in one of these free-market tornadoes, and to survive, they need to transform.
The author, instead of looking at this as "writing for free", should look at this as an opportunity to create his personal platform. HuffPo is paying him by giving access to their audience. It is up to him to take advantage of that. Yes, it's not easy, but it's reality.
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#8I wouldn't pay him either. I got bored after the second paragraph.
Before you downvote: I have hired hundreds of writers in my time, and am currently paying out hundreds of dollars/day to content creators at http://newslines.org/newslines-rewards/
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#9Good for the writer. I have written for Hufpo once before and soon I realized how their model works: 1 - get free content from the writers. 2 - get free marketing and traffic from the writers (who tell their friends and follower about their article they've just posted on the Hufpo) Most of the articles you write are all hidden in some sub-pages that no one but your friends or google seo would ever find. edit: formatt…
This is the basic model of a lot of similar companies. Get people to provide content for free, then profit from control over the repository. If it weren't for copyright protections, HuffPo and its ilk would just copy your blog posts verbatim and call it a day. They're one step up from the sites that auto-generate product reviews or display reformatted Wikipedia articles.
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