{"id":6372,"date":"2016-11-17T12:57:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T12:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=6372"},"modified":"2016-11-19T15:08:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T15:08:53","slug":"linked-the-nyt-buying-wirecutter-and-sweethome-is-so-much-more-amazing-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/linked-the-nyt-buying-wirecutter-and-sweethome-is-so-much-more-amazing-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: “The NYT buying Wirecutter and Sweethome is so much more amazing than you think”"},"content":{"rendered":"

via 15 Minutes In The Morning (which is a medium blog)<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I imagine every step of the development of the Wirecutter\/Sweethome was about people laughing at Brian. You can\u2019t build a tech site that doesn\u2019t publish 20 times a day. You can\u2019t build a content site that isn\u2019t covered with advertising. You can\u2019t build an entire business on Amazon affiliate revenue. You can\u2019t take on Consumer Reports and expect to get any traction. You can\u2019t pay for this level of in-depth reporting. Ok, great, you built this, but why would anyone ever come back?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brian Lam and I never met although we had some similar circles and I was in his presence a few times w\/o formally saying hello. I wrote this post back in July of 2010.\u00a0https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/why-i-no-longer-read-gawker-blogs\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

In it, I complained about Gizmodo\u2019s RSS feeds and Brian commented on the post within an hour and emailed me as well a link to the full RSS feed. I\u2019ve stopped dreading a lot of blogs who don\u2019t publish full RSS feeds and while my blog is still not on anyone\u2019s radar, the fact that the editor for Gizmodo found my post and emailed me to make it right..wow.<\/p>\n

My point in writing this is because even when he\u2019s not an owner or partner in something, he is going 110%. I\u2019m stoked he has made this incredible self-funded site a brilliant multi-million dollar exit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via 15 Minutes In The Morning (which is a medium blog): I imagine every step of the development…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-11-19T15:08:55Z","apple_news_api_id":"c057bd89-fe39-4513-91a5-41ac5a563e03","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-11-19T15:08:55Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AwFe9if45RRORpUGsWlY-Aw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1EM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3551,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/happiness-takes-a-little-magic\/","url_meta":{"origin":6372,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 “HAPPINESS TAKES (A LITTLE) MAGIC”","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"via The WireCutter: I owe my livelihood to technology and I love the raw capability it offers us as a tool, but I fear it a bit more than most people do. 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