End of the Internet

Thank you.

 

The Internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another.

 

Also, it is a series of tubes.

 

"You mean that movie with Mork from Ork in it?"

 

YOU ARE THE ONES WHO ARE THE BALL-LICKERS!

 

This guy has been saying it for years.

 

Nah, it's that thing that guy, Al Bore or something, invented. He went on to become president of the United States.

 

Agreed. It's what did in the dotcom bust in the late 90s. They can't find a way to sell. And you can't keep giving the product away.
The whole reason that hits are the big deal now is to inflate the numbers. They couldn't sell ads based on clickthroughs, views or unique hits because the numbers were too low. So the wizards started selling based on hits.
And it has failed and will fail until someone reinvents the interwebs.

 

I wasn't a big fan either, but Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms

 

As the only daly newspaper within a 150-mile radius, we're fools for giving away our content for free online. If we were to shut down the site, I guarantee our circ and single copy numbers would increase. It's a fucking product. You can't make money if you keep giving it away.

 

So when does the revolution (counter revolution?) happen? Does the business need to seek an antitrust exemption so there can be some price fixing?

 

Hits - How Idiots Track Sites, according to the analytic wonks

advertisers are looking at engagement - what did a visitor use, how long did they use it, what did they use before and after

the problem with newspapers and the internet is that most newspapers do a half-assed job on the web (which, because of the distraction, leads to half-assed work in the paper)

You need a separate staff to do the internet well - its own reporters, editors (and not "producers), etc. Yes, either side can leverage the content each produces, but to simply mirror it takes away from both

The internet isn't merely a "newspaper" on-line. You need to create, feed and converse with the "community" that uses the web.

Newspapers deliver sermons from the mount; on-line should be a conversation

They aren't the same