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Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall

Adam Sherk

Newspapers and magazines survive through advertising and newspaper sales. The advertising has gone elsewhere and they want to charge for News? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! It happens.

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friendfeed Explosion

Koka Sexton

They’ve brought their expertise to a slightly different area: social network aggregating. If I wanted to leave a comment, I would do it on the same platform the feed came from and not an aggregator. Once a dormant social site that I used only for aggregating my rss feeds has now become a full fledged community.

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Analyse your RSS Feed

Koka Sexton

FeedBurner also offers the largest feed and blog advertising network that brings together an unprecedented caliber of content aggregated from the world’s most recognized media companies (e.g. Our Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.

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Content farms will eat themselves

The Way of the Web

What content farms rely on: There are two things that content farms rely on for content creation – Search and Advertising. Essentially they’re creating content to respond to popular search queries to arbitrage advertising revenue (sold direct or via networks such as Google’s Adsense).

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Koka Sexton

You can track the daily aggregate views of your photos and see how many times people are looking through your pictures. It’s really a social media platform for people that appreciate photos. You can add friends, leave comments on great pictures and get some great stats on your account.

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Report recommending 'Google Tax' seems rather confused

The Way of the Web

So the arguments for taxing digital news aggregation sites are that print,TV and radio are owned by a tiny amount of companies, and local newspapers need propping up despite the fact people are looking elsewhere? Plus the information will be more relevant and interesting, and less commercially orientated to please advertisers.

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Keeping Gov 2.0 Fresh

Social Media Strategery

After seeing how government was beginning to use social media, it dawned on me that I could create my own set of aggregated feeds and effectively build my own news site. When the idea for GovFresh came to me, it was a DC-meets-SF perfect storm. The first iteration of GovFresh transpired over 3 days. I hope we can help change that.

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