http://ryanblock.com Editor and technology critic in the midst of founding a new web startup: gdgt. Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:53:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://ryanblock.com/2008/04/selling-newscom-to-bloggers-no-thanks/ http://ryanblock.com/2008/04/selling-newscom-to-bloggers-no-thanks/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:30:54 +0000 Ryan Block http://www.ryanblock.com/?p=821
James Nicholson over at Seeking Alpha thinks CNET should sell off its tech news division, News.com, to some other network of “top-tier tech blogs” (Engadget, Tech Crunch, etc. are named), and keep the best writers of the defunct brand to build a better blog network at CNET. Um, yeah, no thanks. That plan makes no sense, not only because the only thing that makes News.com any good is its editors, but (and no offense to all my pals at CNET) the editorial and business models of that division are becoming increasingly deprecated. So yeah, in that regard it does make sense to start thinking about a sale, I suppose — especially considering how much work (read: catching up) Dan Farber’s got to do about right now.

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