Good Lord yes, but these big outfits seem to've worked out how to obtain unobtainable resources to match their growth. Mom and pop outfits not only lack the access capital to the internet, but also the kind of revenue stream newspapers used to get from their ad syndicates. There've been online ad services with discreet, postage-stamp ads that've supported outfits like Metafilter before. Being able to handle not just the traffic but also the necessary revenue plowback from getting Slashdotted probably helps, right?
Good Lord yes, but these big outfits seem to've worked out how to obtain unobtainable resources to match their growth. Mom and pop outfits not only lack the access capital to the internet, but also the kind of revenue stream newspapers used to get from their ad syndicates. There've been online ad services with discreet, postage-stamp ads that've supported outfits like Metafilter before. Being able to handle not just the traffic but also the necessary revenue plowback from getting Slashdotted probably helps, right?