Comments on: Hey, Demand Media! Get Off My Lawn!

By: Real People Think Demand Sucks, Too! | Demand Studios Sucks

Real People Think Demand Sucks, Too! | Demand Studios Sucks — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:32:49 +0000

[...] to know how our profession ends, look at Demand Media,” Jason Fry, a former WSJ.com reporter, wrote in a post on the blog Reinventing The Newsroom. They’re also contributing to declining rates for freelancers, critics like Roth say, making it [...]

By: Demand Media: A Story in 5 Numbers

Demand Media: A Story in 5 Numbers — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:36:08 +0000

[...] Jason Fry of Reinventing the Newsroom weighed in with Hey Demand Media Get Off My Lawn [...]

By: Contentfabriek laat algoritme bepalen waarover wordt geschreven « De nieuwe reporter

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:04:09 +0000

[...] je wilt weten hoe het met ons beroep afloopt, moet je naar Demand Media kijken”, schreef webveteraan en voormalig WSJ-columnist Jason Fry eind vorig jaar op zijn blog. Hij had net een [...]

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:58:32 +0000

I have “worked” for several of these sites or content farms as you call them. Demand Studios and Associated Content happen to be the worse in my opinion due to rigid mindsets and editing schemes. Demand simply pays too little and I find it hard to believe that the bulk of eHow’s horriffically written material and explainations actually go through Demand’s supposedly tough editors and standard writers rules.

Anyone that has tried to read through this huge array of “fast food” style articles posted to many of these sites should easily be able to tell that the majority of their writers are not professionals, don’t adequately research their content and many times even just rewrite articles that they have come across online that have strongly popular keywords. As many a “get rich writing online content” blog owners proudly boast that anyone looking for a quick buck online should do.

I have also found that creativity without direct focus around their all important keyword mindset is not tolerated or looked for at all. It is not about crafting a perfectly honest, well researched and skillfully written article piece on these site. Sadly, it is all about SEO, in fact, many of them advise you to use keyword generating tools that tell what the most searched for keywords are on any given phrase or topic prior to actually writing your desired article.

This is then pushed further by the sites telling its writers to purposely craft their articles around only the top producing keywords and to find ways to include the actual keywords within the titles, descriptions and article content itself for greater SEO.

Sadly, Google News is even partnering with many of these sites, so don’t expect them to change this game too much. Massively cheap labor and massive product development 24/7…looks like the Walmart-way has reached even the world of online content creation.

By: geomark

geomark — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:11:54 +0000

Manjoo needs to read that article, because when he says “once Google and co. wise up to [Associated Content]‘s schemes, its business model is toast” he doesn’t realize that YouTube (which is Google) loves Demand Media and actually solicited them to produce more of their low grade product in order to fill out areas that were thin on content so they could show pertinent ads alongside.

My prediction is that these schemes aren’t going to end up toast, it’s the search engines that will eventually end up toast if they continue this way.

By: MediaShift . 4 Minute Roundup: The Problem with Content Farms | PBS

MediaShift . 4 Minute Roundup: The Problem with Content Farms | PBS — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:07:13 +0000

[...] Hey, Demand Media! Get Off My Lawn! at Reinventing the Newsroom [...]

By: Content Farms Are Effecting News, Journalism, Search and Marketing [10 Links]

Content Farms Are Effecting News, Journalism, Search and Marketing [10 Links] — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:11:24 +0000

[...] you want to know how our profession ends, look at Demand Media,” wrote Jason Fry, a former Wall Street Journal columnist who edits Reinventing the [...]

By: Algorithms Aren’t Evil « Reinventing the Newsroom

Algorithms Aren’t Evil « Reinventing the Newsroom — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:25:50 +0000

[...] quoted a fair amount about Demand Media and other so-called content farms, and come to accept that my initial description of Demand Media as “how our profession ends” will follow me around forever. (The Web is [...]

By: MediaShift . Your Guide to Next Generation 'Content Farms' | PBS

MediaShift . Your Guide to Next Generation 'Content Farms' | PBS — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:23:29 +0000

[...] you want to know how our profession ends, look at Demand Media," wrote Jason Fry, a former Wall Street Journal columnist who edits Reinventing the [...]

By: Rob Levine

Rob Levine — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:26:13 +0000

@ Reinventing
Rosen says:
“I think editorial companies can learn from how Demand Media determines what people are interested in now.”

First, this is a total fallacy because they’re NOT learning what people are interested in now, they’re learning what they’re searching for now – there’s a big difference. And the subjects they want to engage with now are something else entirely. A few weeks ago, were you interested in what General McChrystal thought of Joe Biden? I bet that changed – but not because of an algorithm. Jeff and Jay just like the idea of journalISM without journalISTS.