Indie content
Maybe Salon really is going about this all wrong. Indie media on the web will be hard to keep afloat, especially with the names that Salon has attached. So what do we do? Well, I think that a viable indie news/media/content site will need to be more low key. Take the real world indies as an example. Keep things simple and focus on the good stuff. Of course, that probably means nothing on the scale of Salon as those people aren’t gonna come and post all by there lonesomes. Though I hope they would =) Of course, I may be describing Feed or Suck. And we’ve seen where they are. Of course, most of thse sites have had 4+ year runs on the web. Not bad really. I think that any just overreached. Of course, it’s also possible that 4 to 6 years is just how long these kind of sites will EVER last. Maybe this is the sign for the next generation to step up and give it a try. Maybe bring in some innovation or fresh ideas. I keep thinking that Plastic, Slashdot, and Kuro5hin are this next generation. Except some of those have been around as long as Salon has. Also, I can’t say that I get the same quality of content. Plastic and K5 aren’t bad. Plastic does a better Slashdot then Slashdot, at least for non-geek stuff. Slashdot has gotten pretty dull, and never had any real content to begin with. Of course neither does Plastic. K5 does have content, submitted and peer reviewed, but it has glacial turnover on the frontpage. I don’t know, K5 just has never really pulled me in like Salon has. Time to ponder some more…
update: Fixed bad links