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Are there enough pageviews for continued Galaxy Gear coverage online?

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Here’s a fun game to play over the next few days. Watch the news websites and tech blogs and see how many articles about the Samsung Galaxy Gear are posted. Looking at web traffic numbers on some stories in the first 24 hours, it doesn’t look like the announcement of the Galaxy Gear has created any significant public enthusiasm. If it has, websites are going to keep finding angles to write about the watch. Right now? It’s a sea of ‘Samsung were too early’, ‘This looks silly’, ‘They really want to lock-in users’, and ‘Why?’ stories. That’s fine for today,

The future of media is cosplay

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From The PA Report: But let’s get back to the general ecosystem out there: How do sites justify running longer, in-depth stories that won’t bring in the huge page views? I have bad news. They write shit. Popular shit. I stopped getting mad at the “Top Ten Japanese Panties I Jerked Off To Last Night” stories on certain sites when I realized that the hundreds of thousands of page views those articles received helped pay for a writer to spend a week gathering sources and do original reporting for a feature. The “Sexy Cosplay” galleries are worth an epic amount