Demand Media pivots into User-Generated Content
Gotta hand it to Demand Media ($DMD), despite the beating they have taken for being a ‘content farm’ they have repositioned themselves very nicely away from the firestorm. First they not only escaped but apparently benefitted from Google’s algorithm shift, aimed directly at the content farms that they supposedly were. Now they’ve made a move [...]
Silly Rabbits: Google is for Spam not for Search
I’m watching with some interest the growing meme about Google passing on too much spam in the search results. Mathew Ingram does a good overview while claiming Google is on a collision course with Demand Media. He mentions: – Paul Kedrosky’s rant – Vivek Wadhwa, who says we desperately need a new and better Google - [...]
Wikipedia’s Decline and the 7 Types of Human Motivation
There have been a lot of stories recently reporting on the slow decline of participation in Wikipedia. Most of the stories have come to the conclusion that people are just sort of not interested in helping anymore as there is an abundance of information available on all topics. The fun of building a global utility [...]
