{"id":170,"date":"2006-10-11T10:18:20","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T15:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=170"},"modified":"2006-10-11T10:18:20","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T15:18:20","slug":"whats-the-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2006\/10\/11\/whats-the-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t get the Google \/ YouTube deal. In fact I don’t get the News Corp. \/ MySpace deal either. Pay a gazillion for something that hasn’t even been close to making a profit – because it’s got lots of viewers. Are we back to the bubble-time habit of paying for “eyeballs”? Size for the sake of size? That is what most commenters seem to focus on: how MS and Yahoo “need to move quickly” while there’s something left to buy out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t get the Google \/ YouTube deal. In fact I don’t get the News Corp. \/ MySpace deal either. Pay a gazillion for something that hasn’t even been close to making a profit – because it’s got lots of viewers. Are we back to the bubble-time habit of paying for “eyeballs”? Size for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}