Comments on: Interesting Digg Monetization Strategy http://www.chrisg.com/interesting-digg-monetization-strategy/ the business of blogging and new media Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:49:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chris Garrett http://www.chrisg.com/interesting-digg-monetization-strategy/#comment-187 Chris Garrett Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:04:26 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/interesting-digg-monetization-strategy/#comment-187 Yup, hopefully buyers will quickly catch on to that ... hopefully ... Yup, hopefully buyers will quickly catch on to that … hopefully …

]]> By: Bes Zain http://www.chrisg.com/interesting-digg-monetization-strategy/#comment-184 Bes Zain Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:01:59 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/interesting-digg-monetization-strategy/#comment-184 I am guessing the reason for this is that many people still do not understand the way the online world works and think blogs are an exception to most rules that apply in the offline world. If the above trend of selling domains quickly after being dugg continues, people will start abusing such rating systems like Dugg or Netscape in order to sell recently registered sites again and again. Like you said, just because something is popular today at this very moment does not mean it will be popular over longer periods of time in the future. The value of a blog depends on how much value it brings to readers and the blog owners over longer and stable periods of time. I am guessing the reason for this is that many people still do not understand the way the online world works and think blogs are an exception to most rules that apply in the offline world. If the above trend of selling domains quickly after being dugg continues, people will start abusing such rating systems like Dugg or Netscape in order to sell recently registered sites again and again.

Like you said, just because something is popular today at this very moment does not mean it will be popular over longer periods of time in the future. The value of a blog depends on how much value it brings to readers and the blog owners over longer and stable periods of time.

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