{"id":954,"date":"2007-01-27T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T20:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=954"},"modified":"2007-01-27T13:12:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T20:12:18","slug":"disintermediation-where-oh-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/954\/disintermediation-where-oh-yeah\/","title":{"rendered":"Disintermediation where? Oh, yeah . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

HouseValues.com is laying off 60 employees<\/a>. Why? Zillow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Year-over-year, mainstream media job cuts are up by 88%<\/a>. Why? Ahem…<\/p>\n

The question I asked was: How much future is there in a job that millions of very smart people are willing to do for free?<\/a><\/p>\n

But, but, but! Surely the work product of professional journalists is worth more than the random output of pajama-clad amateurs!<\/p>\n

Worth more to whom?<\/i><\/p>\n

An even better question, the first question I posted on BloodhoundBlog: If almost-as-good is free or nearly free, what is the market value of slightly-better?<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s an even better question: Taking account of the Russell Shaw podcasts — Parts I<\/a>, II<\/a> and III<\/a> — and reflecting that there will be many more such podcasts, here and elsewhere, how much are you willing to pay for products like those sold by Nightingale Conant<\/a>…?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HouseValues.com is laying off 60 employees. Why? Zillow.com. Year-over-year, mainstream media job cuts are up by 88%. Why? Ahem… The question I asked was: How much future is there in a job that millions of very smart people are willing to do for free? But, but, but! Surely the work product of professional journalists is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-disintermediation","category-marketing","category-real-estate","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":797,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/797\/cutting-out-middle-man-in-a-sale-might-cost-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":954,"position":0},"title":"Cutting out middle man in a sale might cost you","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me in today's Arizona Republic (permanent link). \u00a0Cutting out middle man in a sale might cost you I've talked about disintermediation before, and surely it will come up again. 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When Redfin fails, they won\u2019t blame themselves, the business model,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2922,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2922\/our-role-will-remain-strong-firm-indispensable-all-we-must-do-is-adapt-wanna-bet-the-dinosaurs-of-the-pre-web-world-of-business-will-be-supplanted-not-disintermediated\/","url_meta":{"origin":954,"position":4},"title":"“Our role will remain strong, firm, indispensable. All we must do is adapt.” Wanna bet? The dinosaurs of the pre-web world of business will be supplanted, not disintermediated","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Richard Riccelli fingered this article on intimations of irrelevance in the advertising industry. 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