Comments on: Bad Karma At contentSutra. Site Sputters After Being Bought By The Guardian.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:53:16 +0000

Why this happend ?
Change of masters…

By: amit

amit — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:52:15 +0000

Seriously, the traffic has crashed to the botom

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The life-span of startup review sites… « the marcellus weblog — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:12:34 +0000

[...] are doing, so you can stick to #1- Focus. Don’t gloat, speak ill of others, or talk about Karma. Especially when you don’t know that the results of “bad karma” don’t kick [...]

By: nick

nick — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:48:54 +0000

When I want digital media news, I go to paidcontent. When I want to see a catty blogger use any excuse he can to attack other media outlets, I go to TC. I’m really glad that in this collapsing economy, I still have one constant — Arrington and his minions publishing complete crap under the guise of journalism.
Sure, contentsutra has sucked since Pahwa left and of course, he was a great asset to the company. But what on earth is the point of this post other than to trash Ali/his company and call it “bad karma”?

By: tony

tony — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:32:15 +0000

too bad..

http://gatesand...s.blogspot.com/

By: "www.ShawnDrewry.com"

"www.ShawnDrewry.com" — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:31:57 +0000

That’s right Michael…Tell em’…:-P

lol

By: "www.ShawnDrewry.com"

"www.ShawnDrewry.com" — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:31:39 +0000

ouch

By: payam

payam — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:22:20 +0000

hmm…I am confused…what was the purpose of this blog?

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:49:30 +0000

I don’t believe I’m two-faced, I tend to say on this blog exactly what I say everywhere else. And I’ve never knowingly written something factually incorrect for any reason.

By: preetam mukherjee

preetam mukherjee — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:46:08 +0000

Which is why we still hold him in high esteem.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:29:03 +0000

He’s never censored user comments, when they make him look bad either.

By: David Adams

David Adams — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:09:37 +0000

“I lost respect for Rafat when he started targeting TechCrunch with factually incorrect personal attacks , but I don’t begrudge his success at all. The guy will do whatever it takes to win.”

Of course Mike your not bitter or two-faced having never made personal infactual attacks at a competitor.

By: Raghuvir

Raghuvir — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:03 +0000

The traffic seems to have ‘dropped of the cliff’ two earlier times as well. So, this time is no different. Nikhil was definitely an asset to CS and they should have retained him. CS almost had all the breaking news first, now no one has. Most of the players now use/have similar sources and no one seems to have a good strategy in place.

Raghuvir
http://www.blogadda.com

By: preetam mukherjee

preetam mukherjee — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:08:00 +0000

p.s.: i’m not trying to be an a**hole, although i think i just became one.

but i want you to know that you have a million plus readers, and spreading negativity isn’t the way to go.

THAT, my brothers, is bad karma.

By: Kunal

Kunal — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:04:08 +0000

Rafat should have given Nikhil a stake and retained him… i think thats when everyone knew that CS wont be able to retain its edge…

Cheers,
Kunal
http://www.kunalsheth.in

By: preetam mukherjee

preetam mukherjee — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:03:48 +0000

Well, the author of the post sure didn’t qualify/elaborate on “bad karma”…YOU did, in the comment above. I re-read the post a few times to see what the “bad karma” was, and didn’t find out until I read your comment.

And your reviews generally hold objective bias(a la PERSPECTIVE)..not a mis-aligned personal bias. Let’s not play word games.

My point simply is, if you’re talking about “bad karma” in the title of the post, then tell us about the “bad karma” in the body of the post.
Here, let me summarize this post for you:

“Only three months …beating out mocoNews.”
>> contentsutra is sputtering…

“But if you look …is not true.”
>> sputtering = few/bad posts, rumors + syndication announcements, et al.

“In any event….one point in time.”
>> former contentsutra spearhead says that he left beause there were no apparent plans for the future.

“One of the reasons …that market long and hard.”
>> irrelevant quote from Guardian CEO

“After Pahwa left…as good as its writers.
>> a blog is as good as its writers..DUH. Oh and Rafat’s looking for a new writer.

“That’s the thing about blogs. They are incredible efficient from a labor standpoint. You can launch a media property covering an entire sub-continent with one editor. The flip side is that when you build a brand or sub-brand around one person, that brand takes a hit when that person walks out the door. (This is an issue all blogs have to deal with, and is why giving out equity to writers and editors is a good idea).
>> blogs are efficient(Duh). Contentsutra suffered from Nikhil’s departure. Please give equity to your writers.

WHERE’S THE BAD KARMA??

By: Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:51:12 +0000

I vote against that.

By: pwb

pwb — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:45:10 +0000

The graph doesn’t look too reliable. Were the previous two drops also real? Probably not. Alexa shows ContentSutra flat to slightly down. Not much of an article here.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:22:48 +0000

Erick has fully authority to do whatever he wants on this blog. He can take off all his clothes, run around naked and live blog it if he wants to.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:21:48 +0000

no, not gloating, didn’t write the post. and this doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the sale.

all of our reviews are biased. always have been.

By: preetam mukherjee

preetam mukherjee — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:57:36 +0000

Seriously mate- don’t tell us about WHAT you plan to do. Tell us WHEN we can expect the changes.

I’m pretty close to getting rid of my ContentSutra RSS feed….but haven’t yet, because it’s been on my Live Bookmarks for god-knows-how-long.

So, don’t be a bore…excite me…tell me the WHEN and the HOW.

By: preetam mukherjee

preetam mukherjee — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:52:52 +0000

So what was this bad Karma you’re talking about, anyway? The post doesn’t elaborate on that, at all.
I agree that CS isn’t doing so hot right now, but perhaps you could’ve just highlighted that, without attributing it to bad karma.

You’re not begrudging Rafat’s success. You’re gloating about his recent failure.
And you don’t need me to tell you that it’s not a very nice thing to do….

All you needed to do was title the post differently, from “Bad Karma At contentSutra. Site Sputters After Being Bought By The Guardian.” to: “ContentSutra sputters after being bought by the Guardian.”.

That would’ve been factual, that would’ve been journalistic, and that would’ve been consistent with your track record of providing un-biased reviews.

By: venky

venky — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:22:59 +0000

Not sure whats the point you are trying to make here..(sunday rant?)..

Maybe that’s why you will realize that your boss, Mike won’t let you ‘take complete control of what you write.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:48:06 +0000

If you switch the region from “India” to “All”, not only are there no craters but the traffic is sliced in half. Seems like something is broken with Google’s stats here.

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