NowPublic *still* discriminates against microbloggers?

by markmayhew | September 2, 2009 at 11:38 pm
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I am checking out NowPublic for the first time in almost a year, and I realized why I don't contribute to it: they discriminate against microbloggers/link journalists, they only deal in stories that are 100's of words long.

Maybe *that's* why they went out of business, hopefully this will change now that Examiner.com owns them.

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Beaulieu

In Twitter, they have to write stuff 140 characters long.  I think micro-blogging 'is an art form', although sometimes it looks like 'someone hasn't bothered'. It depends on how you look at it.

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J2B

Truemors is microblogging!

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Amy Judd

We didn't go out of business, we're still here.

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markmayhew

if you keep telling yurself that, after awhile you may even start to believe it...why do folk at NowPublic have such a hard time accepting that it's all over now, baby blue? 

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Amy Judd

I'm sorry to see you are so bitter, I'm not sure why, I always liked your work

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markmayhew

I'm not bitter, NowPublic's closing up shop didn't cost me any money...it's *frustrating* to me to see that NowPublic, from the top down, even at this late stage of the game (they were bought several days ago) still doesn't get it...NowPublic didn't sell from a position of strength, they sold because they had no other option (it was bought for $20M, NowPublic VC's had invested some $12M into it)

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First Flagged at 12:47 AM, Sep 3, 2009 by Beaulieu

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