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People don't get that when you make college free, you also take away a lot of the choice that goes into college. German colleges are free but the kids who are chosen to go to them are often selected by the third grade.

Lowering the cost of public universities while increasing the quality will pressure private universities to do the same, and thus make college more affordable and accessible for everyone -- it's a much better use of funds.

I never heard of Meerkat before this article. So the press blitz wasn't that great.

The goal of journalism is impartiality. And most good journalism comes as close as it can come. This article is not an example of that.

I was on a jury once. Many, many people can't follow simple jury instructions, figure out the difference between an argument and a statute (seriously), etc. And most of them had an education level beyond college. It was the most eye opening experience of my life.

With her husband's massive financial problems, there's no way $1 million would have made this worth it for her.

Definitely see a professional. They are the only ones that can tell how serious your depression is and recommend actual therapies for it.

Exactly. No publishing site serious about making money sells anything on a CPC. It's CPM or leads, all the way.

If you're doing this for a living the last thing you should be doing is relying on Google ads. The publications that make money at this have sales staffs (and much higher CPMs, and no CLC campaigns)

You are exactly right. There were issues at UBM that had nothing to do with the industry at large. And GigaOm just had too much debt to overcome (IMHO). Many, many other tech pubs are thriving online, in site growth, revenue and profit.

CPM rates for enterprise technology sites are significantly higher.

There was a previous iteration of the site. It may have been that one.

And getting away from those Flash sales appeared to be a significant part of its downfall (at least according to the article -- that and the Europe expansion).