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I have had a discussion with a friend of mine regarding old and new medias that I thought might be of interest to you, my awesome readers. But first, a little bit of contextual information is in order. Our discussion was born due to this post on Gawker. Newspapers are on death row these days and are blaming bloggers (charmingly called parasites) for their downfall. Funny thing is, my friend is facing the same arguments from her team at work – now she needs to get them to understand how to survive in this new economy. Here’s our (mostly) uncensored thoughts.
Frankster
11:35
old mediaMercedes
11:35
losersMercedes
11:36
by wikipedia, Traditional media is by definition any media that have been existing before the Internet era.
that’s what i want to reply
and give examples
yes?
or should i let go?Frankster
11:40
don’t get into a war
maybe i would try something like this:
ideas that have been laid out are interesting, but i’m concerned about the perception of those so-called “parasites”
these people are willing to engage in a discussion
they are not parasites
to increase your link equity and help getting more inbound links and visitors
it would be wise to reach out and join these parasites
join the conversation
get them linksFrankster
11:42
let your readers know that discussions are happening here and hereMercedes
11:43
its best to understand these so called parasites have a better knowledge of metadata, and of seoFrankster
11:43
of course they have a better understanding of SEO
but they are also niche sites
with high density niche contentFrankster
11:44
but when you enter specific, niche themes
it means that they either have to do a better job of documenting their content, of improving it
because there are in-depth posts happening around the web
that do the work better than they are
papers keep using syndicated content
that already exists on other platforms
they are trying to spit out news fast to remain competitive
but they don’t write in-depth articles, at least not as much as they used to
jeff jarvis would say:
syndicate your content from blogs that do the job better than you
and instead concentrate on what your job is:
investigation journalism
uncover news storiesMercedes
11:50
I replied:
Referring to Wikipedia, Traditional media is by definition any media that has been existing before the Internet era.
ideas that have been laid out are interesting, but I