Helldump

haha, get it?

• Drew: but the fact that Huffpo even provides their own commenting section
• so you don't need to go and register on AA's board
• Rachel: it puts people on HuffPo on notice that she's still around (famliar name there) and offers them the option to bookmark her at Air America too.
• you're thinking about the internet all wrong
• Drew: haha
• that's a good line
• Rachel: you don't want to trap readers
• they have to come to you
• you offer it up as a service
• they will follow
• more important for Verena to keep popping up on HuffPo
• audience will get that she's at AA
• don't forget that media reads huffpo too, people will notice her, get in touch with her for interviews etc. where they otherwise would not
• look at you! you gave her and air america free publicity!
• see?
• voila
• Drew: guess so, i just mean we're having this huge war over being paid for content, and maybe that's one of the huge differences between Internet and print, but this isn't reblogging something on Tumblr
• even if you source the original, and maybe Verena isn't the right example here, because a) she made a name for herself on Huffpost and b) she is happy to give them her stuff, you're suggesting that it's okay to reprint an entire article as long as you hyperlink it or something.
• Rachel: no i'm not!
• OBVIOUSLY there has to be PERMISSION
• Drew: so Huffpost is the exception
• Rachel: I'm talking about a person making the decision FOR THEMSELVES to repub on HuffPo. HUGE diff.
• to what/
• ?
• Drew, there are two issues here.
• 1. "How can I give my content/the content of my company a wider platform?"
• 2. "Can I totally republish this article I didn't write in its entirety and get all the traffic from it?"
• : )
• Drew: i just mean, i don't think i can think of any other site that works like that.
• like ANY other
• can you?
• Rachel: like HuffPo? Nope. It's a brilliant/evil business model