Comments on: Help Me Interview Arianna Huffington

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:40:44 +0000

(1) Where will the innovation in 'online content monetization' (OCM) come from?
AOL? HuffPost? TechCrunch/GigaOm/TPM/Politico? NYT? WSJ? Or somebody not yet on the screen.
(2) What is the biggest revenue stream currently, and what the most underrated one, in OCM.

(3) How does she justify do pivot HuffPost several times from Politics/and blogs, to boobs, celebrities, sensationalism and aggregation.

Not to mention that it became a mainstream product, driven by getting more and more eyeballs by focusing on "what gets us more eyeballs?"

Instead of saying, how do we optimise revenue for the current product?

By: Dave Goetz

Dave Goetz — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:41:56 +0000

How does HP think about managing the costs of reporting. Reporting is expensive, yet it is one of the differentiators of journalism? Is old world reporting dead?

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:02:45 +0000

Ask her why she has allowed her idea-driven and serious platform to be so completely overwhelmed by sensationalistic, trivial, tabloid, petty, silliness.

I know the answer is 'pageviews' but how can she justify all the false shock and outrage and celebrity nothingness that take up about 50% of the site space. There is great value in both the original ideas and aggregation they do, but it's watered down with complete horseshit in a very sad way.

As John Stewart once said in a slightly different context, 'you're hurting us'. Why?