[thelist] RE: spam?

[Alex Beston]

I dont agree.

>
>> the statement "build it good and they will come" just rings hollow. 
>> totally hollow. with a million pages coming up each day, how is the 
>> little diamond of a site going to get noticed?
>
>
> In exactly the same way that a little 2 carat diamond does get noticed 
> in the midst of the millions of tonnes of granite mountains that have 
> been thrown up all over the world. And when word does get out about 
> someone finding a diamond in some tiny little cave diamond hunters 
> from all over the world flock to that cave to stake their claims.
>
> See, valuable content. A diamond. An important article. A quality 
> product. You just don't hear about mass prospecting when all the cave 
> has to offer is lots of black dirt.

 content producer puts up content. content is brilliant. content 
producer sits looks at screen for the gold rush to his gold mine. 
producer twiddles thumbs. looks out the window. repeat. producer wonders 
what to do next. phone rings. does something else. forgets site. site 
has "site suspended" on it.[1] producer gets the cash to give it one 
last try. producer dies inexplicably. kottke or some such person 
eventually notices the quality and site is suspended because of the 
server load - no producer to pay the charges. kottke scratches head. 
moves on, finds a cool new site with live producer. live producer gets 
pissed that night with the giddy heights of success.  end.

zzzz
Alex

[1] http://raydesign.co.uk/