For a brief point last spring, some friends and I talked about creating a online content company. We had the writer and editor friends. We had the online creds. But we abandoned the plan after doing a little research. There's basically no demand for good online content. There's lots of demand for crappy content, which will boost a website's google rank.

Because of the high demand for crappy content and the high umployment rate among liberal arts college grads, content farms have opened up. These farms spew out mediocre content for pennies per paragraph. They have been carefully created by programmers to limit human contact between writers, editors, publishers, and clients. It's the first sign of the Apocalypse as far as I'm concerned.

Read this fascinating account of life inside a content farm.