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Adam Penenberg aka the man who took down Stephen glass decided to write about Serv drop.IO, crowdsourcing content farm that allows publishers to request articles for rapid publication. They call it the "engineering," which does not bode well for my work as I have MA or MSc.
The article written with tongue in cheek firmly is an excellent example of the dangers of "content engineering". Unlike say, Bank programs, it is difficult to engineer. If you carefully, writing about the company is a hard slog and if you're not careful you need to at least be dynamic. Penenberg the crowdsourced PIN for Servio was, in fact, either.
He notes:
The basic facts are accurate; However, all that requires interpretation, is ripe for abuse. They simply avoided the questions that I have presented, which requested them to inform the company's greatest shortcomings and criticize their competitors, and I never learned that the company's revenues. Anything with the company's co-founders Jordan Ritter and Alex Edelstein painfully subservient. They were described as "hip, young businessmen" with "boyish good looks," so that "it's not hard to imagine how they became so successful in a hip world of Internet business.
You can paint-stained wretches as Penenberg (and presumably me) replace the contents of engineers? Absolutely. Most of the stories are rehashed press releases and, except sometimes scoop/investigative piece, it was thus with broadband. There is no money in shaking the Crown from the lowly perch. There's money in a novel information ravenous, neophilic audiences.
Penenberg article was a fool, of course, but it indicates that the element, we read online-even this one can be transferred or crowdsourced. Does it matter? Not much but it's nice to know that there's a real man behind the curtain ... Oz at least some of the time.
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Servio provides services on demand, scalable business. The company's Media Services Division focuses on achievement of high quality, high volume of written and video content, translation, content promotion and SEO services for. ..
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