I am now one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. Watch out Zuckerberg; I’m coming for you.
In the wake of the Huffington Post / AOL merger, creating the biggest content farm in the world for Tim Armstrong to work with, a lawsuit has been filed by freelance journalist Jonathan Tasini on behalf of all the bloggers who have contributed to the Huffington Post without being paid. Not surprisingly, Arianna Huffington says the suit is without merit.
You’d better hope she’s right.
At the end of 2009 I told the story of C|Net’s Managing Editor asking me to keep reading his company’s stuff, keep commenting, but not seek attribution. I called him out for that ridiculous request both because I knew his motivation was to hamper my Search Engine Optimization efforts and out of indignation. Honestly, it was mostly about the latter.
Imagine asking someone to an event, putting them up on stage with a microphone, having them express their opinion, but not allowing them to identify themselves. Same thing. Ridiculous.
I’ve written about Coopetition a few times. It’s one of my favorite topics when business change is on the table, and depending on how you view it, coopetition is either very easy or almost impossible to understand.
In a nutshell, the idea is that you don’t really have competitors any more. Now, coopetition has created a business environment where you find a way to work with others who formerly looked like competitors, but are now viewed as collaborators—even if there’s a zero-sum game for your shared potential customers.
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