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Long Tails All the Way Down: Rethinking A-Lists

  • Posted by Snurb
  • May 18, 2008

In his recent post on mainstream newspapers’ gradual warming to Google as a source of traffic to their Websites, Jason points to Matthew Hindman’s claims that descriptions of the Net as ‘democratising’ media participation may be overstated (in Hindman’s book manuscript Voice, Equality, and the Internet), and notes my skeptical stance towards Hindman’s conclusions. Heh. [...]

Google - The best friend newspapers ever had?

  • Posted by jason
  • May 14, 2008

Shaping the future of the newspaper is an excellent source of news and think-pieces on how new platforms are affecting well… the future of newspapers.
Anyway, today there’s a piece by Erina Lin on how Google search, and aggregators like Yahoo! News and Google News, have benefited newspapers. The story smells a little of a Google [...]