For Web Content, "News" Less Important Than Durability

David Carr’s New York Times‘ piece yesterday about Demand Media hit home: As someone who has spent their post-collegiate years looking for writing jobs – any kind of writing jobs – seeing Demand’s Craigslist posts are unavoidable, and appealing. Not only do they promise the blogger’s dream of making by writing about whatever you want, but a chance to work for a completely different type of organization, one that “solves problems, answers questions, saves money, saves time and makes people laugh.”