Comments on: Interview: Jim Leff of chowhound.com http://professorsalt.com/2006/03/10/interview-jim-leff-of-chowhoundcom/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:20:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: nonono http://professorsalt.com/2006/03/10/interview-jim-leff-of-chowhoundcom/comment-page-1/#comment-1396 nonono Sun, 27 May 2007 09:28:57 +0000 http://professorsalt.com/2006/03/10/interview-jim-leff-of-chowhoundcom/#comment-1396 bs.. chowhound is full of paid editors.. u were duped.. bs.. chowhound is full of paid editors.. u were duped..

]]> By: CNET Networks Buys ChowHound; Gets Into Foodie Community | paidContent.org http://professorsalt.com/2006/03/10/interview-jim-leff-of-chowhoundcom/comment-page-1/#comment-287 CNET Networks Buys ChowHound; Gets Into Foodie Community | paidContent.org Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:05:32 +0000 http://professorsalt.com/2006/03/10/interview-jim-leff-of-chowhoundcom/#comment-287 [...] : You want proof of why CNET won’t or can’t be sold? It is getting weirder and weirder by the day. Take this: it has bought out serious foodie website Chowhound. When I lived in NYC in late 90s and early part of this decade, Chowhound was a very New York-thing…I had this Brooklyn group of friends who were serious foodies ands they swore by Chowhound…the site has serious loyalists, and that’s an understatement. An interview with Jim Leff, the founder: The site started in 1997. “It’s an online community filled with food obsessed people. The ancient software looks anachronistic, like a dot matrix print job in the dye sublimated, photo-realistic 21st century. Despite the site’s low tech look, the community’s level of knowledge is simply unsurpassed compared to wannabe newcomer websites with a similar mission.” And why did they sell: “The site was unmanageable on the ad-hoc basis we were running it. The bills were climbing, the tasks were mounting, and our tech stuff, which had already strained way beyond the breaking point, seemed about to snap. And frankly, I was beyond exhausted.” And why did CNET buy: Karen Wood of CNET: “CNet’s built its reputation on building really rich, authentic content brands built around people and areas of passion. We started with computers and technology over ten years ago, and today we have a site that spans music, consumer electronics, video games, television and the common thread among all our sites is that passion that our users have for that subject and our ability to serve them because we also share those passions.” Wow…so really, nothing in common from the tech and media lifestyle that CNET is. But hey, it is Shelby’s fiefdom to run, isn’t it? Related: – VillageVoice: Chowhound Sold to CNET Networks – Newsday: CNET buys Chowhound.com [...] [...] : You want proof of why CNET won’t or can’t be sold? It is getting weirder and weirder by the day. Take this: it has bought out serious foodie website Chowhound. When I lived in NYC in late 90s and early part of this decade, Chowhound was a very New York-thing…I had this Brooklyn group of friends who were serious foodies ands they swore by Chowhound…the site has serious loyalists, and that’s an understatement. An interview with Jim Leff, the founder: The site started in 1997. “It’s an online community filled with food obsessed people. The ancient software looks anachronistic, like a dot matrix print job in the dye sublimated, photo-realistic 21st century. Despite the site’s low tech look, the community’s level of knowledge is simply unsurpassed compared to wannabe newcomer websites with a similar mission.” And why did they sell: “The site was unmanageable on the ad-hoc basis we were running it. The bills were climbing, the tasks were mounting, and our tech stuff, which had already strained way beyond the breaking point, seemed about to snap. And frankly, I was beyond exhausted.” And why did CNET buy: Karen Wood of CNET: “CNet’s built its reputation on building really rich, authentic content brands built around people and areas of passion. We started with computers and technology over ten years ago, and today we have a site that spans music, consumer electronics, video games, television and the common thread among all our sites is that passion that our users have for that subject and our ability to serve them because we also share those passions.” Wow…so really, nothing in common from the tech and media lifestyle that CNET is. But hey, it is Shelby’s fiefdom to run, isn’t it? Related: – VillageVoice: Chowhound Sold to CNET Networks – Newsday: CNET buys Chowhound.com [...]

]]> By: PaidContent.org http://professorsalt.com/2006/03/10/interview-jim-leff-of-chowhoundcom/comment-page-1/#comment-260 PaidContent.org Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:38:51 +0000 http://professorsalt.com/2006/03/10/interview-jim-leff-of-chowhoundcom/#comment-260 <strong>CNET Networks Buys ChowHound; Gets Into Foodie Community...</strong> : You want proof of why CNET won't or can't be sold? It is getting weirder and weirder by the day. Take this: it has bought out serious foodie website Chowhound. When I lived in NYC in late 90s and...... CNET Networks Buys ChowHound; Gets Into Foodie Community…

: You want proof of why CNET won’t or can’t be sold? It is getting weirder and weirder by the day. Take this: it has bought out serious foodie website Chowhound. When I lived in NYC in late 90s and……

]]> By: Sramana Mitra on Strategy » Blog Archive » Chowhound Becomes CNet http://professorsalt.com/2006/03/10/interview-jim-leff-of-chowhoundcom/comment-page-1/#comment-258 Sramana Mitra on Strategy » Blog Archive » Chowhound Becomes CNet Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:15:59 +0000 http://professorsalt.com/2006/03/10/interview-jim-leff-of-chowhoundcom/#comment-258 [...] Here is an interview with Jim Leff, the founder. I had the pleasure of meeting him once at a Chowhound dinner in Chinatown, San Francisco some years back. [...] [...] Here is an interview with Jim Leff, the founder. I had the pleasure of meeting him once at a Chowhound dinner in Chinatown, San Francisco some years back. [...]

]]> By: Jim Leff http://professorsalt.com/2006/03/10/interview-jim-leff-of-chowhoundcom/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Jim Leff Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:00:36 +0000 http://professorsalt.com/2006/03/10/interview-jim-leff-of-chowhoundcom/#comment-246 Melanie-- Garlic Forum (wherein we took over a Compuserve forum that had been terminated but not removed from view, and repurposed it for discussing garlic - until the authorities noticed and shut us down) was pretty good, but it was a pale shadow of a much more ambitious prank: Jim Leff Forum (which was written up in a couple of accounts of early online history - and in this book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/155821741X). I actually launched Chowhound in much the same whimsical, prankish spirit. And I'm pleased that a lot of that spirit has endured. Anti-pomposity, etc. JIM Melanie–

Garlic Forum (wherein we took over a Compuserve forum that had been terminated but not removed from view, and repurposed it for discussing garlic – until the authorities noticed and shut us down) was pretty good, but it was a pale shadow of a much more ambitious prank: Jim Leff Forum (which was written up in a couple of accounts of early online history – and in this book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/155821741X).

I actually launched Chowhound in much the same whimsical, prankish spirit. And I’m pleased that a lot of that spirit has endured. Anti-pomposity, etc.

JIM

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