I always find business models interesting when they are based on the potential actions of a single company. What if Google decided to not search/index any demand media content?
Secondly I would add to the argument that there has always been bad content on the web. The content my hometown newspaper (The Sacramento Bee) produces is nearly mutually exclusive to what is on Demand Media produces. Local politics and local journalism of all types is rarely something that is covered by content farms such as Demand Media.
The bottom-line is that, practically speaking, I have never had content farm articles crowd out any search I have ever done for news.
We have found, during the short period our publication (sacpress.com) has been around, that pushing for complete transparency and rewarding that behavior is a good thing. This has led the community to chastise those who comment anonymously if what they are saying is venomous.
At the same time we do allow for comments by people who do not reveal their real names (although they still must sign-up to comment, which only involves and email address, zip, username and password).
By no means do we have the solution, but we have seen great success in our limited endeavors.
For us the bottom line is no absolutes. We push what we prefer but leave a whole host of options available.
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Longevity of content farm model
I always find business models interesting when they are based on the potential actions of a single company. What if Google decided to not search/index any demand media content?
Secondly I would add to the argument that there has always been bad content on the web. The content my hometown newspaper (The Sacramento Bee) produces is nearly mutually exclusive to what is on Demand Media produces. Local politics and local journalism of all types is rarely something that is covered by content farms such as Demand Media.
The bottom-line is that, practically speaking, I have never had content farm articles crowd out any search I have ever done for news.
Community enforced conventions
We have found, during the short period our publication (sacpress.com) has been around, that pushing for complete transparency and rewarding that behavior is a good thing. This has led the community to chastise those who comment anonymously if what they are saying is venomous.
At the same time we do allow for comments by people who do not reveal their real names (although they still must sign-up to comment, which only involves and email address, zip, username and password).
By no means do we have the solution, but we have seen great success in our limited endeavors.
For us the bottom line is no absolutes. We push what we prefer but leave a whole host of options available.