Fox's Purchase of MySpace Has Got Users Biting Their Nails
by Joshua Minton
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I have a couple of friends who use MySpace and they swear by it. To me, it seems a little too "cliquey." But they are right to be worried about censorship, access fees, monitoring, etc.
If you remember my initial post after I transferred my free Blogger blog to this paid PowerBlogs blog, you know that I expressed many of these same concerns. Of course, my main concern was over the advertising revenue that would be generated from these free platforms putting ads on archived pages, essentially making money off of my writing.
On the other side of the coin, a lot of money, time, and effort went into the R&D in creating these free hosting platforms and the shareholders of these companies have a right to expect a return on investment.
As Michelle Malkin reports today, "there only a few thousand human-operated political blogs that update every day." This means that of these few thousand blogs, only a small few will be tended to by serious bloggers with great writing skills, interesting viewpoints and a penchant for creating consistently interesting content.
And those bloggers should be on their own hosting platforms.
It should be interesting to see what happens to this whole MySpace/Fox issue.
I have a couple of friends who use MySpace and they swear by it. To me, it seems a little too "cliquey." But they are right to be worried about censorship, access fees, monitoring, etc.
If you remember my initial post after I transferred my free Blogger blog to this paid PowerBlogs blog, you know that I expressed many of these same concerns. Of course, my main concern was over the advertising revenue that would be generated from these free platforms putting ads on archived pages, essentially making money off of my writing.
On the other side of the coin, a lot of money, time, and effort went into the R&D in creating these free hosting platforms and the shareholders of these companies have a right to expect a return on investment.
As Michelle Malkin reports today, "there only a few thousand human-operated political blogs that update every day." This means that of these few thousand blogs, only a small few will be tended to by serious bloggers with great writing skills, interesting viewpoints and a penchant for creating consistently interesting content.
And those bloggers should be on their own hosting platforms.
It should be interesting to see what happens to this whole MySpace/Fox issue.
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This blog was originally posted on August 2, 2005
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