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Media industry
fromPowder
1 week ago

Consolidation and Affiliate Marketing Upended Outdoor Media-Now Audience-Driven Content Is Having a Moment

Consolidation and monetization of outdoor media transformed independent, thoughtful backcountry skiing coverage into revenue-driven content, prompting a renewed demand for authentic outdoor journalism.
fromPowder
2 months ago

Has The Humble Ski Blog Taken Its Last Breath?

There was something about the internet of old. The leisurely, dial-up conjuring of a digital page via Netscape was certainly revolutionary, but to a seven-year-old me it was more; at once novel and expansively thrilling, it literally put the world at my young fingertips. Later, even when the paradigm shifted to high-speed, there was still a certain idealistic nascency to the web.
Digital life
Tech industry
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Anthropic bot crawlers feast on web content and give little back, a new ranking shows

AI companies heavily crawl websites for training data while returning minimal referral traffic, undermining the web's traditional data-for-traffic exchange.
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