At its worst, this is one stop short of a content farm.

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In several ways the Huffington Post resembles a content farm, as writers from TechCrunch, Slate and elsewhere have pointed out.

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But Demand Media is evidently not enjoying the attention from Demand Studios Sucks, a blog maintained by refugees, malcontents and other critics of the so-called content farm.

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Starting in its days as an independent company, many have criticized it as a "content farm, " a website that cranks out low-quality content designed to game search engines like Google to get page views and sell advertising.

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The Seed.com content-farm model, meanwhile, is currently only facilitating one aspect of freelance content production, which is advertising assignments and collecting copy.

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