When I read this CJR.com article about Forbes.com launching a new True/Slant-DNA’d blog approach, all I could think about was that five-year-old cover-story in Forbes magazine that started out, “Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo.”
Another irony: That 2005 article was written by a Forbes writer who would later become one of the most famous bloggers ever, for writing a fake blog that, at times, spews plenty of invective.
Sidenote: Visiting Forbes.com for the first time in a long time, I noticed the cluttered design, page-view-inflating gimmicks and numerous other user-hating approaches of Forbes.com seem to be undergoing a transformation into something that might work when their competitors throw up pay walls.
August 7th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
You mean the 2005 article, right?
August 8th, 2010 at 1:27 am
thanks. caught that and tweeted a correction, but the first date got retreated. after a while, all the decades run together. ; )
August 8th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
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