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I want my Felix Salmon
Employees said they were told Thursday that most of Portfolio’s Web site staff would be dismissed and that much of the content unique to the site would be dropped.
Please keep him, we need him (and Zubin too). I hold out hope in that word "most." Here is the story. Media, like new library books, are being hurt by the downturn and the slowing of advertising dollars. I fear that the non-independent blogosphere may be in for a bit of a financial bloodbath. So often the bloggers were an "investment in long-term name and image" rather than a profit center.
Update: So far, so good. Felix lives!
Posted by Tyler Cowen on October 30, 2008 at 10:06 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
Felix is one of the best. Isn't hit blog extremely popular? It'd be a shame to see him go - and I imagine that bloggers are fairly low cost high production relative to the other parts of journalism. No editors and support personnel required.
Posted by: Mercutio.Mont at Oct 30, 2008 10:25:16 PM
I agree with you. He's terrific.
Posted by: Don the libertarian Democrat at Oct 30, 2008 10:27:44 PM
I just started reading him a few weeks ago. He was a great addition to my reader.
Posted by: Jeff H. at Oct 30, 2008 10:53:19 PM
I hope someone picks him up. He's fantastic.
Posted by: secretivek at Oct 30, 2008 11:51:22 PM
Sorry, he's pathetic. Brief, 1-D analysis in a 3-D world. Yeah, maybe he made some money once or kissed somebody big's ass, or maybe he's a hoot at cocktail parties, but only 1/10 of his columns are insightful or worth reading. He put ZERO effort into his blog. In fact, almost all the bloggers on the Nast site are seriously weak or flawed.
Go to Nakedcapitalism.com if you want to read a blog from someone who is smart and knows how to hustle. Bigpicture or AngryBear, Economists view, I could spout ten others.
Felix is a poser. He struck a pose and for some reason people took him seriously. Maybe he'll just be a fixture at parties in the future.
Posted by: Landon at Oct 31, 2008 12:51:03 AM
Unlike Landon, I share Tyler's hope that Felix's job is spared. He makes worthwhile observations, is entertaining and provides interesting links to others on regular basis. Works for me.
Posted by: RW Rogers at Oct 31, 2008 1:56:09 AM
Landon, don't be such a dick. FS may not always have got things right, but he was considered, informative and always willing to admit he was wrong, a rare trait.
Posted by: Tom at Oct 31, 2008 4:55:47 AM
Why wouldn't he just, say, start blogging at MR?
All this over what is essentially still a flat economy? I may yet turn into a Keynesian.
Posted by: Andrew at Oct 31, 2008 6:21:36 AM
Zubin Jelveh of Odd Numbers has to stay too - his blog is one of the best on the net.
Posted by: datacharmer at Oct 31, 2008 6:38:59 AM
T&A,
If you are right, you realize this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?
Posted by: Andrew at Oct 31, 2008 8:22:33 AM
I, for one, am rooting for a layoff. Only in that event will he be free to join this blog and cement the foundation of the coming MR empire.
Posted by: Chris at Oct 31, 2008 12:15:13 PM
I just hope the rapid expansion of economic commentators won't change the nature of the content. In other words, don't kill the golden puffin.
So, a TV show that changes for the worse "jumps the shark." A auction goer that overpays "buys the shark." And, a blog that is rescued from obscurity by a historic economic crisis "flies the puffin."
Posted by: Andrew at Oct 31, 2008 12:41:21 PM
Jeez, I hope if they ax him you'll give him space here (for the brief time before another gig snaps him up of course).
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