In light of the recent news that Huffington Post has been sold to AOL, it seems timely and fun to post something I wrote about Huffpo in November of 2009. 

I published an article on my Huffpo blogger account called “Huffpo Going Mainstream?”  Later, I published a few more articles on Huffpo. Then in November of 2010, I again submitted a blog post for publication but nothing happened.  Last week I submitted another article for publication and it also apparently has not been published.  Must have something to do with the AOL acquisition and not needing free bloggers anymore.

Mind you, my blog posts were not published anywhere on the Huffpo pages such that you could actually find it if you were just looking around the site, you would have to do a search with the key words in order to find it.  But according to Nate Silver NY Times: Economics of Blogging and Huffington Post, there is approximately a 50:1 correllation between page views and comments (an imperfect formula), so I figure at 1 comment, that single post may have gotten around 50 views.  Anyway, FWIW, here's what I wrote over a year ago about my impression that Huffington Post seemed to be going corporate. 

But first let me preface it with this disclaimer: I understand that many progressives are mad at Obama, and I'm not too happy about how certain things have played out either, but it did seem like all of a sudden Huffpo became extremely negative about Obama across the board.  At the same time and since, Obama bashing has seemed to be the narrative of choice for corporate and right-wing media.  That and some other things like the huge headlines, and having to wade through the celebrity and gossipy stuff made me virtually abandon Huffpo as a favored source for accurate political news and commentary.  So the site being bought by AOL didn't seem like a huge loss for me because in my view it has not been what it started out being, for a long time.

Here's what I wrote in November 2009: You can still link to it and read the comment here.