{"id":818,"date":"2006-12-29T14:30:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T21:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=818"},"modified":"2006-12-29T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T21:46:50","slug":"bloodhoundblog-at-six-months-getting-our-legs-under-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/818\/bloodhoundblog-at-six-months-getting-our-legs-under-us\/","title":{"rendered":"BloodhoundBlog at six months: Getting our legs under us . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

BloodhoundBlog is six month’s old today. The first post<\/a>, an accidental prophesy, was about the incipient disintermediation of for-pay content providers in the age of the internet:<\/p>\n

If almost-as-good is free or nearly free, what is the market value of slightly-better?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I documented the birth of the blog soon thereafter<\/a>, but it’s reasonable to argue that BloodhoundBlog is a natural progression in the erosion of the castle walls surrounding for-pay intellectual property. When Joseph Rago rails that weblogs are “written by fools to be read by imbeciles,”<\/a> by what sum, precisely, is the Wall Street Journal<\/i> enriched? Is it plausible that more wealth was “monetized” in the Rago-reaction than ever was realized by the original rant? If “no man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money,”<\/a> who made more — Rago or the anti-Ragoons? And what persists, in the end, but another “free” opinion in an unmetered atmosphere of “free” opinions?<\/p>\n

Their world is done. Ours is but begun. There may be a way to build a wall around original reporting, particularly where the information is time-sensitive, is difficult to obtain or is available only from an easily-restricted source. The obvious example is a real-time — as against time-delayed — stock ticker. What’s left after that? Habit? Status? Higher production quality — which may be a further expression of status? What argument can the vestigial Joseph Ragos make for the added value of “metered” air? It’s time for a deep breath, isn’t it? Why not? The air is “free.”<\/p>\n

Do you want to argue for the superiority of your content? Good on ya! Produce superior content. Is it your goal to argue that your content is so much better that you deserve to be paid for it? Good luck with that plan. You may be able to draw enough eyes that you can dupe some advertisers into paying for the chance to try to hook a few — just like the endlessly preening broadcast news. If you see your future in a box office — a toll booth on the information superhighway — then do, please, take that deep breath. There’s a clue Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BloodhoundBlog is six month’s old today. The first post, an accidental prophesy, was about the incipient disintermediation of for-pay content providers in the age of the internet: If almost-as-good is free or nearly free, what is the market value of slightly-better? I documented the birth of the blog soon thereafter, but it’s reasonable to argue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-disintermediation","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3144,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3144\/bloodhoundblog-unchained-greg-swann-on-the-unchained-epiphany\/","url_meta":{"origin":818,"position":0},"title":"BloodhoundBlog Unchained: Greg Swann on The Unchained Epiphany","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This talk is a further elaboration on a post I wrote in April: There are several other clips from this session on the BloodhoundBlog Unchained YouTube Channel. 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