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Posted on August 24, 2009 | tags

 
 

Tech: Slate cuts the crap, just gives you the Slatest news, simply.

  • And good for them. Really. OK, we’re kinda sad because it appears they’ve stolen our idea to some degree, but Slate’s newest site, The Slatest, is a news aggregator that doesn’t get bogged down by lots and lots (and lots) of links, like, say, Digg, Reddit, The Huffington Post, The Drudge Report, and … we could go on. A handful of really good news stories, linked in such a way that you know what you’re clicking, with a giant freaking ad that doesn’t get in the way. We approve. Good show, Slate. source

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  • Ken Slaughter

    Arguably Ernie, you just took Drudge’s idea and added more text. Or gave a daily news spin to Kottke’s idea. And Slate obviously took cues from The Daily Beast. And on and on it goes.

    Just because they are trying something like this doesn’t mean it will pay off for them. What works on the economic scale of one guy and a free intern or two might not support the overhead for a larger publication. Drudge has been insanely profitable for years now, but then he only has one other employee. And Kottke never could make a living from his blog, refusing to ever have advertising on it.

  • Ken Slaughter

    Arguably Ernie, you just took Drudge’s idea and added more text. Or gave a daily news spin to Kottke’s idea. And Slate obviously took cues from The Daily Beast. And on and on it goes.

    Just because they are trying something like this doesn’t mean it will pay off for them. What works on the economic scale of one guy and a free intern or two might not support the overhead for a larger publication. Drudge has been insanely profitable for years now, but then he only has one other employee. And Kottke never could make a living from his blog, refusing to ever have advertising on it.

  • Ken Slaughter

    Arguably Ernie, you just took Drudge’s idea and added more text. Or gave a daily news spin to Kottke’s idea. And Slate obviously took cues from The Daily Beast. And on and on it goes.

    Just because they are trying something like this doesn’t mean it will pay off for them. What works on the economic scale of one guy and a free intern or two might not support the overhead for a larger publication. Drudge has been insanely profitable for years now, but then he only has one other employee. And Kottke never could make a living from his blog, refusing to ever have advertising on it.

 

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