With the Spend Matters navigator somewhat offline it’s great to see some other projects picking up where Jason Busch’ rather ambitious project left off.
Purchasing Transformation contributor Robin Titus has been devoting some late nights to The Purchasing ExpertPage; a stylish and very smooth rss-style aggregator picking up news from all the leading sector blogs and news sources.
The Purchasing Expertpage aggregates news and information about Purchasing from different sources. Expertpage is a private project with the main target to make daily blog research easier and faster.
December 9, 2008 at 9:18 pm
This is great. Blogs steal content from real publications. Aggregators build whole sites out of the blog feeds. Little by little the google ads take revenue away from the original publications until they’re all out of business and the bloggers have nothing to comment on because they have yet to figure out that SOMEONE has to create original content to steal, right?
December 10, 2008 at 11:58 am
I believe that you are coming into this from a completely wrong angle. Media is not consumed as it used to; and due to this paradigm, media and publishing houses need to take a new look on their revenue models.
As media consumers, we are becoming more and more sophisticated and at the same time we are becoming more and more comfortable with flexible, personalized and role-based user interfaces. Instead of going to one restaurant and choosing from one menu, we are going out on the town and choosing from a smorgasbord sampling all restaurants available.
Journalists and publishing houses will always have their place in the media landscape, but they need to reshape the way they present their content to the potential consumers – and if they’re not doing it in a way that the consumers want, someone else, such as a news-feed aggregator will.