Mahalo's Calacanis: Time To End The Content Farm Arms Race

Re:Mahalo's Calacanis: Time To End The Content Farm Arms Race by aphyr on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @08:44PM (#2195851)

Honestly, Jason, this is the only time I've found myself agreeing with you. Mahalo was a low SNR, spam-driven, visually abhorrent, search-result-polluting pile of useless self-referential scraped-off-wikipedia bullshit that I wanted to burn to the ground so badly that I wrote code to excise it from search results before its inchoate content managed to scream dimly from somewhere below two folds worth of weight loss ads, "help me."

I'll give you a good slow clap.

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Re:Mahalo's Calacanis: Time To End The Content Farm Arms Race by jasonmcalacanis on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @11:07PM (#2196245)

Thanks pal.

Frankly, I think we got caught up in the races with content farms like Demand Media too much. You can't create thousands of articles a day and expect quality--it's impossible!!!

So, we move to dozens to maybe 200 pages a day... but we do it with quality and hope for the best.

The good news is we broken even last year and have a ton of money in the bank. We are going to ramp up our burn and try to make a LOT of high-quality videos.

You can see them here: http://www.youtube.com/mahalocallofduty http://www.youtube.com/mahalopiano http://www.youtube.com/mahalodotcom http://www.youtube.com/mahalomath http://www.youtube.com/mahalocooking

These videos are getting better and better... I'd say most are 6-9 out of 10. Every month we should add a half point to our average. That means by the summer we should only publish stuff that's an "eight or better."

We are going to build a wide, commercial version of the Kahn Academy.

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Re:Mahalo's Calacanis: Time To End The Content Farm Arms Race by aphyr on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @11:55PM (#2196415)

We are going to build a wide, commercial version of the Kahn Academy.

This is a terrific idea, and I wish you all the best in doing it well. You've got the drive, money, and PR skill to make it a reality. Go for it.

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Re:Mahalo's Calacanis: Time To End The Content Farm Arms Race by swordfish on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @08:46PM (#2195856)

Keyboard kill for you. "Tell us how you really feel!"

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Re:Mahalo's Calacanis: Time To End The Content Farm Arms Race by kategardiner on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @09:38PM (#2196025)

like (for the words as written..)

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