Sat.Jan 22, 2011 - Fri.Jan 28, 2011

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The Decline of the Single Editorial Voice

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Later today, Keith Olbermann will make a statement on Twitter about, presumably, the circumstances of his departure from MSNBC. Though that’s a small thing in itself, says ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick , it’s a reflection of a huge shift in media. After citing other examples of how social media allows individual voices to flourish outside of traditional mass-media outlets, Kirkpatrick writes that.

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Commodity Content, Demand Media, and Quality

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Are commodity content and quality incompatible? That seems to be the underlying assumption of most discussions of Demand Media’s “frothy” IPO successfully concluded yesterday. Ominously, perhaps, that event was preceded by Google’s promise last week to clamp down on high-ranking content-farm sites with “shallow or low-quality content.”. The terms content farm and content factory are meant to be disparaging, as if content is worthless if it isn’t lovingly crafted by hand.

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