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YouTube Inks First Live Sports Broadcast Deal
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 24, 2010 5:14 PM / 5 Comments
YouTube has announced an exclusive deal to broadcast live online the entire cricket season of the upstart Indian Premier League this year. "[This is] the largest and most extensive live Continue reading »


New York Times to Charge for Online Content?
Written by Jolie O'Dell / January 17, 2010 10:00 PM / 24 Comments
According to internal sources, the New York Times may soon be charging users for its online content. In a move that would bring the publication parallel to the Wall Street Continue reading »


MSNBC Buys BreakingNews.com to Go With With @breakingnews [UPDATED]
Written by Mike Melanson / January 5, 2010 9:17 AM / 4 Comments
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that BreakingNews.com was opperated by the same people who started the @breakingnews Twitter account. MSNBC announced this morning that it is Continue reading »


What It's Like To Write For Demand Media: Low Pay But Lots of Freedom
Written by Guest Author / December 17, 2009 11:10 AM / 32 Comments
Editor: This is a guest post by Andria Krewson, a freelance journalist who has written for Demand Media. Given our recent focus on Demand Media and so-called content farms, we Continue reading »


Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried
Written by Richard MacManus / December 13, 2009 12:59 PM / 72 Comments
I've been writing a lot about so-called 'content farms' in recent months - companies like Demand Media and Answers.com which create thousands of pieces of content per day and are Continue reading »


wikiHow vs. eHow: Is The Wiki Way Better Than Content Farms?
Written by Richard MacManus / December 9, 2009 2:00 PM / 61 Comments
Jack Herrick knows a bit about Demand Media, one of the top 20 web properties in the U.S. and the subject of several ReadWriteWeb articles about sites that are pumping Continue reading »


Top Internet Trends of 2000-2009: Democratization of News Media
Written by Richard MacManus / November 18, 2009 2:34 AM / 9 Comments
It's November 2009 and we're nearing the end of a decade. It's been a tumultuous time of change for many industries, much of it driven by the Internet. The newspaper Continue reading »


Ad-Driven Content - Is it Crossing The Line?
Written by Richard MacManus / November 13, 2009 5:00 AM / 21 Comments
Yesterday we wrote about how Demand Media produces 4,000 new pieces of content every day - and whether it can sustain quality at that scale. There was vigorous discussion about Continue reading »


How Demand Media Produces 4,000 Pieces of Content a Day
Written by Richard MacManus / November 12, 2009 3:10 AM / 46 Comments
In August we reviewed Demand Media, one of the largest producers of content on the Web today. Wired Magazine recently compared Demand Media's content business to Henry Ford's production line Continue reading »


The Age of Mega Content Sites - Answers.com and Demand Media
Written by Richard MacManus / November 5, 2009 1:15 AM / 29 Comments
Two companies that produce massive quantities of new content every day, Answers.com and Demand Media, are rapidly moving up the list of top U.S. web properties, as measured by comScore. Continue reading »


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