Aol Is Restructuring, Layoffs and Site Closures Likely

AOL may have to return to its profitable core business - dial-up. Yes, AOL still has millions of dial-up accounts, and those bring in more revenue than the content farms.<p>Somebody has to serve middle America.

Of note from the article is that Huffington Post is not the money-maker it used to be.<p>I have noticed this from my own browsing habits. I actively avoid Huffington Post if I want anything resembling unbiased or accurate news. More often these days, it seems like they are willing to regurgitate any old blog post or celebrity tweet as a news item. That type of content is a lot less valuable to me (and it seems to others as well) than original reporting and journalism - anything other than &quot;what this celebrity posted to instagram&quot;.

Interesting that Techcrunch mentions traffic percentage drops of other AOL owned properties like Huffington Post and PawNation, but carefully leaves itself out of that particular paragraph. I honestly can&#x27;t recall the last time I saw a Techcrunch article shared on my LinkedIn or Facebook feed, it feels like TheVerge has done a better job at taking the tech mantle (but that is just my opinion), maybe the people I know just prefer sites like TheVerge instead.<p>I think Techcrunch needs a little bit of a shake-up to be quite honest. The quality of the articles have been very sub-par for a very long time. I am surprised Shingy hasn&#x27;t had one of his &quot;brain farts&quot;, yelled gibberish for 20 minutes like he usually does and save AOL.

I&#x27;m wondering if Techcrunch will be affected by this. They didn&#x27;t really mention anything about that. It&#x27;d be a shame if anything were to happen to such a site.

While there are some (to me) big sites rumored to be on the chopping block, I&#x27;d literally never heard of several candidates before this article. Am I that out of touch with mainstream browsing habits, or had AOL gone crazy with buying content houses whether or not they had audiences?

Funny thing: I got an offer from Aol last month.

I just learned that AOL was still alive.

Hopefully, Shingy will have one of his &quot;brain farts&quot; and things will get better at AOL.