Comments on: Leaving in a Huff: or how AOL killed a beloved movie blog

By: The Capitals™ – Capitalists' Magazine | 資本家札記 | AOL buys GDGT to beef up engineering and design — gives you a chance to delete your account

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:20:29 +0000

[...] It’ll be interesting to see how GDGT’s users react to this acquisition. It was one of the few independent gadget sites remaining on the web, and hardcore techies aren’t often kind to giant companies like AOL, which has had a history of ruining beloved sites. [...]

By: AOL buys GDGT to beef up engineering and design — gives you a chance to delete your account | CrowdBacon – The Startup Blog

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:19:34 +0000

By: AOL buys GDGT — gives you a chance to delete your account if this freaks you out | VentureBeat

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:16:00 +0000

By: The AOL Effect (Time Warner, TechCrunch, and The Huffington Post) | TechFruit

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:13:18 +0000

[...] by the Huffington Post. In a few short years AOL has forgotten whey these sites such as movie blog Cinematical have been popular – it is the content written by its staff. Their popularity was developed [...]

By: religous equal

religous equal — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:30:10 +0000

Person who post this = Someone who probably doesn't have a job anyway

By: Devindra Hardawar

Devindra Hardawar — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:52:55 +0000

No.

By: lakawak

lakawak — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:14:46 +0000

Freelance blog write = unemployed person whose writing is not good enough to get areal job but can maybe make $75 a week on various websites.

By: Horrornews.net

Horrornews.net — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:02:48 +0000

I'm sure if AOL chose to buy these websites, they're doing just fine. That's horrible how AOL and Huffington are handling their writers. Thanks for sharing this with us, Eric.

By: Devindra Hardawar

Devindra Hardawar — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 03:26:04 +0000

Laurent, he was a writer, not the man in charge of running the blog's business. All of those questions are also beside the point. This story is about the insane way Huffington is reshaping established sites, quality of the work be damned.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 02:29:26 +0000

Sound business model or not- you don't treat people like that. If you do, I have no sympathy for you or your bottom line. I already disliked AOL and Huffington before, but I dislike them even more now. Great article, Eric. Very entertaining! AOL is kind of the super bacteria that just refuses to die, and keeps causing similar symptoms wherever it infects.

By: Laurent Courtines

Laurent Courtines — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:27:44 +0000

Do you happen to know what the traffic was like? What the sell thru rates were? Or what sort of CPM's they got? Also? How much did it cost to run the blog? Without that information stories like this mean nothing. You can't pay for content if it doesn't bring back value in return. Sorry.