Arianna Huffington in Conversation with Tim O'Reilly
summary
A news site builds a platform that combines opinion with aggregation, hosts 2000+ bloggers, and enforces human pre-moderation with 30 moderators 24/7 to keep comments readable. The team of about 60 intermixes tech and editorial and reports a traffic split: one-third direct, one-third links, one-third search. Projects include Off the Bus — roughly 10,000 citizen journalists — and a “living” vertical focused on unplugging; claims include that internet fundraising powered a nominee and that AIG received an $85B bailout.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:14HuffPost success story
- 2:41Community and comments
- 4:29Team and tech integration
- 5:51Media narratives influence
- 6:52Iraq war coverage stance
- 7:35Truth vs partisan bias
- 9:24Political distraction
- 11:32AIG bailout critique
- 13:42Why HuffPost thrives
- 15:04Conservative vs progressive blogs
- 17:32Transparency in online media
- 18:18Muslim voices in media
- 19:43Internet as democracy tool
- 21:51Polling flaws critique
- 23:19Local coverage trends
- 23:40Unplugging as trend
- 25:51Closing remarks
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