Couldn't help notice how Dan Farber tossed this mention of the new Crave blog as another reason why CNET, ZD, and the whole network of corporate bile blogging is king of blogs.
Crave actually has an opposite effect. It's like seeing a fat old guy on a MySpace page in Urban Outfitter gear. Imitation indicates desperation. It almost feels like something MSFT would do or has done.
Truth be told, blogs, social networks--they're having CNET for lunch. And it's not just CNET on the menu. It's also ZDNet (down 30 percent in page views in a year) and other tech news publishers, according to comScore.
Pair that with the fact that blogs have outgrown CNET in page views. That's disturbing no matter how you paint it. Or how about this: tech.yahoo.com came out of nowhere, according to Hitwise, and (not even a decent effort) is toasting CNET. I was stunned by the numbers.
Say what you will about comScore, but the numbes don't lie.
If the CNET/ZDNet empire can do some tired news and blogs who's to say that NewsCorp, Yahoo, or others can't decide to move in and take away high CPM nerd readers and enter your turf. Tech.yahoo certainly did it with a pretty weak effort. And blogs are doing it in spades. The revolution is on.
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