Still (Dis)Content After All These Years

“Contentment,” said Luke. “A word which should never be spoken, only spat.”

This week is our three-year anniversary. I started the site/blog in June, second week in 2002, on the naive hope then that I could raise my profile as a journalist.

Well, three years down the line, we’re a small trade media company with four different sites and readers in all possible corners of the world.

And I have lived in New York City, London and now Los Angeles, over these last three years. Looks like it will be Santa Monica for a while now.

I still believe, as I believed it back then, that the weblog publishing tools have enabled the rise of the individual journalist-entrepreneur, away from the shackles of underpaid, under-utilized, under-appreciated jobs with formal media companies.

Expect a lot more from us…more niche verticals within digital media sector, conferences, research, expansion into other countries, a lot lot more…

Many thanks to all my colleagues here, mainly an ardent band of believers: Staci D Kramer, Robert Spears, James Pearce, Todd Beals and S Karat.

Thank you all for the support: readers, advertisers, well-wishers…here’s to many years ahead.

Rafat Ali

rali@paidcontent.org

Editor & Publisher

ContentNext Network (paidcontent.org, MocoNews.net, Billboard PostPlay, and now ContentSutra)

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