Comments on: Rafat Ali is Bearish on Webisodic TV? Crafted ad relationships?

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2008: The Year Web Video Discovers How to Fund Itself — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:54:41 +0000

[...] written about the edge examples of success here (with lessons from Blip.tv), and about ad sales scaling issues here, and about New York’s role in web video world here, but no one has chronicled the real [...]

By: Nate Westheimer

Nate Westheimer — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:32:40 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Rafat. I totally appreciate the need for “bull-shit” detection from our journalists. I just think you’re calling “bull-shit” on the wrong goat here. I’m skeptical that MySpace can successfully replicate Blip’s model, but I think the model itself is pretty clearly right.

By: Rafat

Rafat — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:13:16 +0000

Nate: When I used to work at Brill’s Content/Inside.com back in the days, it had a motto: skepticism is a virtue. I have taken that to heart as a journalist, and always veered between skepticism and cynicism. Our job is to always have the bullshit detector ready, whether it is for overhype or the other extreme. The most we’ll ever praise anything on our site is “interesting”, as you’ve probably seen.
So when you next read our stuff, keep that in mind…you’ll understand where we come from as journalists.