Comments on: Big portals look for niche sites to work with. http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/11/13/big-portals-look-for-niche-sites-to-work-with/ online journalism, newspaper video and digital media Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:04:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: REG CROWDER http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/11/13/big-portals-look-for-niche-sites-to-work-with/#comment-1550 REG CROWDER Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:48:57 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/11/13/big-portals-look-for-niche-sites-to-work-with/#comment-1550 Amen, brothers! Hey, I worked for the mainstream media for decades. Now, I'm totally freelance, mostly for online media. Hell, I don't know why. But I know that in the online media, now and then I can find somebody who doesn't collapse into hysteria at the mere thought of considering a "NEW IDEA." The online media know the importance of new ideas. Ideas are the OXYGEN of new media. Not mother's milk. You can survive a few days without mother's milk. But if you go four minutes without oxygen, you're dead. THE ONLINE MEDIA ARE READING NEWSPAPER WEBSITES FOR NEW IDEAS! And the online media are following up on the ideas that the newspapers are ignoring. So who do you think is going to live? And who do you think is going to die? REG CROWDER Freelance Business Journalist London, UK & Brittany, France http://www.MediaBistro.com/RegCrowder http://www.sourcewire.com/journalist/jd_view.php?id=TgTQ Amen, brothers!

Hey, I worked for the mainstream media for decades. Now, I’m totally freelance, mostly for online media. Hell, I don’t know why. But I know that in the online media, now and then I can find somebody who doesn’t collapse into hysteria at the mere thought of considering a “NEW IDEA.”

The online media know the importance of new ideas. Ideas are the OXYGEN of new media. Not mother’s milk. You can survive a few days without mother’s milk. But if you go four minutes without oxygen, you’re dead.

THE ONLINE MEDIA ARE READING NEWSPAPER WEBSITES FOR NEW IDEAS! And the online media are following up on the ideas that the newspapers are ignoring. So who do you think is going to live? And who do you think is going to die?

REG CROWDER
Freelance Business Journalist
London, UK & Brittany, France
http://www.MediaBistro.com/RegCrowder
http://www.sourcewire.com/journalist/jd_view.php?id=TgTQ

]]> By: Andy http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/11/13/big-portals-look-for-niche-sites-to-work-with/#comment-1548 Andy Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:42:43 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/11/13/big-portals-look-for-niche-sites-to-work-with/#comment-1548 Very true Yoni. But if you do get in there on a commercial level, to start with, you do own them. Start by getting them on your side and then we can work on the control issues that journalists have :) Very true Yoni. But if you do get in there on a commercial level, to start with, you do own them.

Start by getting them on your side and then we can work on the control issues that journalists have :)

]]> By: Yoni Greenbaum http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/11/13/big-portals-look-for-niche-sites-to-work-with/#comment-1547 Yoni Greenbaum Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:15:41 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/11/13/big-portals-look-for-niche-sites-to-work-with/#comment-1547 But Andy, that would mean acknowledging that we in the newsroom are not the only experts, and sadly I don't think many newspapers are ready to do that. It's still far easier to profile the "accidental" success. But Andy, that would mean acknowledging that we in the newsroom are not the only experts, and sadly I don’t think many newspapers are ready to do that. It’s still far easier to profile the “accidental” success.

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