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He sold his blog network to AOL for $25 million. And that was just the beginning

The Business of Content with Simon Owens

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The Wall Street Journal - The New York Post

Facebook owns your followers, so it was really a bastard gate keeper that killed the daily. So i just think they also underestimated how a being behind a hard paywall like that, thee's not even a pay wall. There was no archive, like we had all thes in our system. But literally, you're like, ah, crack man. I was like ten words away from completing the crossroad puzzle, and then now there's a new puzzle. You know. There was just weird stuff like that, because was such an ephemeral, strange, pa walled bino thing. And so they broke stories. They broke news about the the pink slime in mac donald

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