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Daou Reporting For Duty At Salon
By Matt Margolis | February 9, 2005
i have to admit I make regular visits to The Daou Report — frankly I found it to be good site. I have to say I was shocked to discover The Daou Report is now owned and branded by Salon.com — a site few people visit anymore.
Perhaps for Peter Daou this is a step up. I imagine however, Salon.com needs him more then he needs them. Of course this stands to hurt The Daou Report because now in order to access it, you have to either subscribe to Salon.com or go through the annoying free day pass crap, and quite honestly, I’ve never paid to view online content before, and don’t plan to start now. The Daou Report might be a decent centralized resource of blog story links, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to support Salon.com (or sit through a stupid ad) in order to access it.
Generally speaking, the Drudge Report is a collection of links. Links to stories that, chances are, most people could find if they had the time to look. I’d never pay for the Drudge Report, and I’m glad I am on a Macintosh with web browsers that block pop-ups, because anytime I visit Drudge on a Windows machine the pop-ups drive me insane.
I remember struggling over the decision to enforce comment registration over at Blogs For Bush, worrying that enabling that protective measure would discourage readers from participating. I’m not sure if this was the best move for The Daou Report.
HAT TIP: Patrick Ruffini
UPDATE: Peter Daou tells me he believes that the “increased readership that Salon brings would help [him] bring attention to lesser known blogs.” Time will tell if this strategy works.
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February 15th, 2005 at 7:28 pm
Use Mozilla Firefox and the popups (and 99.9% of any other annoying things like adware) vanish. It’s not Windows, its your browser.
February 15th, 2005 at 11:36 pm
popups are nothing. i have a mac and use pop-up blocking browers…
February 17th, 2005 at 9:35 am
Windows is so old and leaky. Go Mac for a smoother ride.