For anyone who has worked as a professional journalist, it’s certainly easy to look at the digital landscape and see the signs of a Rapture of sorts. We are seeing plenty of heated battles over intellectual property and content ownership. Magazines and newspapers have crumbled as quickly as if they were hit with massive earthquakes. Blogs, Facebook, and a pestilent little Tweeting bird are eating the newspaper’s lunch, breaking the day’s news much faster and more efficiently than any well-researched and fact-checked publication could hope to do. And then there’s one of the newest scapegoats in journalism’s predicted end of days: the content farm. Both revered for its profitable, prolific capabilities and reviled for marginalizing the role of the well-trained writing pro, these low-cost, mass-produced article creation engines are making a real impact on the business of content marketing. Continue reading