Idea for a media startup(31fps.com)
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Idea for a media startup
http://www.31fps.com/2008/07/03/gawker-for-colleges/
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> Highly doubt I’ll ever do something like this but if I do… Well, you saw it here first.
Um, no sir. http://juicycampus.com/ has been around for awhile, and I'm sure other incarnations of the like existed beforehand. It also doesn't change the fact that it's a pretty terrible idea to begin with. You can read about the problems JuicyCampus has had:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23211511/
http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=4849927&page=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JuicyCampus
There's also a lot more where that came from if you Google them. Anyways, please think a little harder next time. "People are infatuated with the lives of others (instead of living their own)." Yes! Screw people living their own boring lives! Clearly the golden path to enlightenment involves more stuff like this http://www.webfilehost.com/images/mainstream-media.php. Seriously? This is the "problem" you're trying to solve?
Um, no sir. http://juicycampus.com/ has been around for awhile, and I'm sure other incarnations of the like existed beforehand. It also doesn't change the fact that it's a pretty terrible idea to begin with. You can read about the problems JuicyCampus has had:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23211511/
http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=4849927&page=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JuicyCampus
There's also a lot more where that came from if you Google them. Anyways, please think a little harder next time. "People are infatuated with the lives of others (instead of living their own)." Yes! Screw people living their own boring lives! Clearly the golden path to enlightenment involves more stuff like this http://www.webfilehost.com/images/mainstream-media.php. Seriously? This is the "problem" you're trying to solve?
Why poopoo an idea instead of making creative suggestions?
God, who needed another search engine when Google fired up it's first server?
There are ideas, and then there are gold inside ideas. Some ideas just need time to ferment and geniuses to put the right combination of elements together.
This is why I rarely tell others about ideas I intend to implement.
God, who needed another search engine when Google fired up it's first server?
There are ideas, and then there are gold inside ideas. Some ideas just need time to ferment and geniuses to put the right combination of elements together.
This is why I rarely tell others about ideas I intend to implement.
Do we really want a Valleywag for every college?
collegeotr.com for editors, and juicycampus.com for the UGC.
collegeotr.com seems right on. ivygate.com is similar too -- the big thing these people need to work on is distribution strategy. Gawker had a great one - write trash about other media companies (NYT, Conde Nast, etc) because the reporters at those companies are self important and always wrote back. It became an endless loop and drove tons of traffic to Gawker. History of it is here:
http://www.nplusonemag.com/?q=gawker-2002-2007
(n+1 magazine, great article)
http://www.nplusonemag.com/?q=gawker-2002-2007
(n+1 magazine, great article)
collegeotr writes trash about other college newspapers.
That and finding reporters to hire would be hard, and you can't realistically charge by each 1,000 pageviews. You're only going to get so much traffic from a site aimed at one college. And 2 posts per weekday? I don't think there is that much interesting stuff happening at Georgia Tech to write about. You'll end up having kids posting about the waterballoon slingshot they made at their dorm and used to hit kids walking to the campus bus.. but that's still "meh" in my book.