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February 21, 2005
A High Price to Pay
Strangely, I've read few comments on the NY Times' purchase of About.com. Here's a negative post by John Ellis:
In fact, the deal is an embarrassment of overpayment and reveals a kind of strategic ennui. The "metro" strategy of marketing the newspaper has failed. The television strategy has failed. The great Internet opportunity of 2000-2001 has long since passed (the NYT company could have acquired Yahoo! for a relative song in 2001). Having failed to even comprehend the turbo-dynamics of Blogger, the NYT Company now throws $410 million at 500 weblogs.
If the Times is still in the mood I'll begin negotiations at a paltry $500,000.
"500 Weblogs" [via Instapundit]
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