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		<title>Nick Denton&amp;apos;s idea?</title>
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		<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:20:50 GMT" ctSaves="16" flPreview="false" id="2012.04.22.1775" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="1775" text="Nick Denton's idea?" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2012/04/22/whatsNickDentonsIdea.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.44" versionServer="0.44" whenLastSave="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:13:38 GMT">
			<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:12:24 GMT" pgfnum="13694" text="It's always fun to put a stake in the ground before a product is announced and then see how close you came."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:12:50 GMT" pgfnum="13695" text="And next week we've been promised two products -- at least -- Google's &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=google+drive&quot;&gt;Drive&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://gigaom.com/2012/04/20/nick-denton-wants-to-turn-the-online-media-world-upside-down/&quot;&gt;Nick Denton's&lt;/a&gt; new publishing system. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:13:21 GMT" pgfnum="13696" text="Here are the interesting questions about Google Drive.">
				<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:13:39 GMT" pgfnum="13697" text="1. What features of Dropbox did they leave out?"></outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:13:52 GMT" pgfnum="13698" text="2. What features do they have that Dropbox doesn't?"></outline>
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			<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:14:39 GMT" pgfnum="13700" text="With &lt;a href=&quot;http://photos.scripting.com/2007/september/nickDentonAtBarneysInBerkeley&quot;&gt;Denton&lt;/a&gt; -- here's what I hope he did.">
				<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:14:56 GMT" pgfnum="13701" text="1. Opened up the Gawker platform so that anyone can write for it."></outline>
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			<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:15:14 GMT" pgfnum="13702" text="Draw a Venn Diagram with two circles on it. On one circle write &quot;articles&quot; and on the other write &quot;comments&quot;. The size of each and how much they overlap tells you everything you need to know about an online publication. If one were to manage to make them completely overlap, so that there's no difference between the publication and the comments, then imho you've reached nirvana. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:17:13 GMT" pgfnum="13704" text="If I had a &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/davenet/2000/10/19/transcendentalMoney.html&quot;&gt;billion dollars&lt;/a&gt; (or some virtually infinite amount) I'd buy one of the big names of the news publishing world and transform it into a publication written by everyone. The staff decides what's on the home page. But even that doesn't stand up very long. Every user has the ability to create their own home page, and they compete against the &quot;official&quot; one. ">
				<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:11:59 GMT" pgfnum="13711" text="Dan Lewis &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/#!/DanDotLewis/status/194110354056413185&quot;&gt;asks&lt;/a&gt; &quot;Does your model need a large, existing publication?&quot; "></outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:13:32 GMT" pgfnum="13712" text="It's the size of the name that matters, not the number of employees."></outline>
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			<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:18:53 GMT" pgfnum="13705" text="In a true dotcom fashion, we'll figure out how to make money later. Maybe it doesn't even cost very much to run."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:19:11 GMT" pgfnum="13706" text="Anyway, Nick doesn't need a billion dollars to buy a big publishing brand, even though he has that kind of money, or access to it, because he already has a number of big &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawker_Media#List_of_Gawker_Media_weblogs&quot;&gt;brands&lt;/a&gt; that he can transform."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:19:53 GMT" pgfnum="13707" text="The question is can he get great stuff to flow through is world without paying for it? Maybe. He's always been a smart guy when it comes to software, and is willing to try idea out. So I'm looking forward to seeing what he comes up with, this week."></outline>
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