This isn't exactly schadenfreude, it's more like merely recognizing the ungainly nature of the beast — but blog networks are always going to struggle a bit. Take a look at these posts from the Nature Network. It's not doom-and-gloom, it's just wrestling with the medium, as we've experienced here in recent weeks.
I do have a solution for any financial problems, though: we just need to peddle more T&A and celebrity gossip, like Huffpo. Isn't that a bit illiberal, though, to build your brand on the backs of salacious stories about women? Not to mention the quackery and woo.
Although I guess I am also guilty of building an audience with blatant T&A*, too.
*Only in my case, that stands for "tentacles and arms".
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I appreciate the value of optimistic weather forecasters, as opposed to the usual doom-and-gloom types, but this seems a little too far in the other direction:
Yesterday, Sarah Palin demanded that Charlie Gibson:
Show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect or no effect on climate change. I have not said that.
In the grand epic that is life on planet Earth, what is it about labeling everything by color to emp