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Consolidation in the Blogosphere

Started by Aaron Brazell · 11 months ago

I think we need to see a consolidation of content and advertising.
Everyone’s competing with each other because they don’t know how to give up their individual voice. What happens is we get a clamor for top Techmeme billing.
Instead, I’d like to see more fed ... Continue reading »

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chrisbaskind
11 months ago

Dead on, Aaron. Choosing your partners and building attractive federations will be the new black. As in ink.

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Shey
11 months ago

It sounds good on paper, or video for this matter. Seems only natural that with so many players in a market, that it's ripe for consolidation -- history has proven that in many other industries.

I think they key to success for any future "blogging conglomerates" will to make the right acquisitions and mergers and having an actual strategy in place before they just buy out the competition.

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Aaron Brazell
11 months ago

Yeah, I think consolidation could be done in federations or alliances than
just by pure acquisition. There's probably several models lying around if
folks got creative.

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sth
11 months ago

I am listening to this and it makes perfect sense. Just a few thoughts though:
1. It sounds like your talking about a new denomination....
2. Or Unity ie...One world...(how do you get everyone on the same page?); Didn't Lenin try that??
3. There will always be someone in the organization who rages against the machine
4. Always enjoy reading the post and great seeing you in MD

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Aaron Brazell
11 months ago

Steven, I presume. :)

Yeah I need to do a followup vid this morning going the issue a little deeper and clarifying some of the things I said yesterday.

Good to have you stop by.

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sth
11 months ago

Yes you got it right!! This is me ;)- Love the blog bro

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Jeffrey Olchovy
11 months ago

Hmm. Allied blogs. Allied relational databases. Those that federate will reap the soon coming benefits of the semantic web. The like minded will be able to form cohesive ontologies easier as well.

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