How is Ariana going to justify not paying almost all contributors now?
Amazing that she built this on the backs of authors, most of whom got paid nothing. Am I alone in finding this exploitative?
Amazing that she built this on the backs of authors, most of whom got paid nothing. Am I alone in finding this exploitative?
What I find more exploitative is their working method - often, they took some hard news (which is quite expensive to produce, requiring real reporter to go somewhere), and then their blogger (siting at home in pajamas) took the best quotes and facts from that article, wrote some quick fluff around those quotes and hola!, we have content.
Yes, this is essentially what blogging is about, and if someone does this as an amateur to express his opinion, that's ok. But I feel it is a bit exploitative to make business out of work of journalists working for other media.
For me, this means there's more value rehashing content than producing original content
Interesting.
If someone asks me for spec work I tell them no, if I ask someone to do spec work for them to raise my profile I'm hoping they don't tell me no.
Exploitation is about power, not the money that's involved.
Yes. I was also talking about the fact that sometimes circumstances force people into exploitative situations.
Heroin/crack addicts often face a choice between prostitution or death from withdrawal symptoms.
The obvious answer is to jump up the ladder and say "well they chose to start taking drugs;" it is often not as simple as that either unfortunately.
I don't find this exploitive, and I think this is very similar.
A post on the Huffington has advertisements alongside it making the company money. That alone makes it much more a grey area than contributing to an open source project.
It seems it is a trade off good writers are choosing to make and if there is more value in their writing a competitor will come along and steal the best writers.
The Huffington Post makes money on ads. Every user who uses Google Chrome is a user that isn't using another browser. This means Google makes more money on search ads because they aren't giving a cut to Mozilla, Apple, etc.