Comments on: Quality vs. Clicks « Magnosticism http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2006/10/quality-vs-clicks-%c2%ab-magnosticism/ Commentary on media, technology, marketing and clamming strategies Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:46:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cahill http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2006/10/quality-vs-clicks-%c2%ab-magnosticism/comment-page-1/#comment-19240 Cahill Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:33:59 +0000 http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=811#comment-19240 Working with Reel-Time, I always felt that the best writers would eventually make the move to a site of their own. Some did...to their better glory. With the barrier to entry on the web so low, why not? The truth is we are witnessing a diaspora, where the best are now scattered. The teams we remember now exist as tenuous trackacks between blog posts, as phantom quotes on unmonetized blogs. When bean counters affect editorial, product suffers. To paraphrase Thompson "When the going gets tough, the tough turn mercenary." Have MS Natural Keyboard, will (virtually) travel... Working with Reel-Time, I always felt that the best writers would eventually make the move to a site of their own. Some did…to their better glory. With the barrier to entry on the web so low, why not?

The truth is we are witnessing a diaspora, where the best are now scattered. The teams we remember now exist as tenuous trackacks between blog posts, as phantom quotes on unmonetized blogs.

When bean counters affect editorial, product suffers.

To paraphrase Thompson “When the going gets tough, the tough turn mercenary.”

Have MS Natural Keyboard, will (virtually) travel…

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