Word: contentedly
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...some people believe this model may fundamentally change the news business. When the Seattle Post-Intelligencer became the first large daily newspaper to stop printing and move entirely to the Web, on March 18, the new site was structured uncannily like HuffPo, its original content reduced and jostling for space with guest blogs, wire stories and links to other news sites...
...survived a storm at sea, carried Zaleski's byline even though 80% of the copy was taken verbatim from the St. Petersburg Times, Huffington says that the story drew from several sources - and that they don't mind. "We drive millions of page views to people who produce content," she says, "and we get a hundred requests a day from editors and reporters to link to them." Not everyone is so thrilled. "HuffPo regularly borrows a chunk of our stories and repays us with a tiny link at the bottom," says a prominent Web editor. "It's a practice that...
While this is wily, it's legal. But news organizations may not tolerate others cherry-picking their content and repurposing it for profit for much longer. "Someone is going to sue the Huffington Post," says Joshua Benton, director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. "It's not just about the volume of the content that it appropriates, it's about the value." There are other aggregators, but HuffPo is the most tempting. "It's a big player, and the site that has got closest to the line" between fair and unfair use of copy, Benton notes...
...step closer to fixing our badly broken business model. (The perfect media device also needs to be able to do video.) Once we've got the All-Media Device, we're back in business. In the meantime, the migration from the Web to the post-Web world - where content is easier to consume on new mobile devices, but no longer free - is fully underway. (Read about the new iPod Shuffle...
...love the Web, of course, and fully expect it to continue as the free repository of all information. As a Database of Everything, it is the crowning achievement of civilization. And I absolutely believe that it's possible for certain kinds of low-overhead content producers to eke out a living here, attracting enough audience to generate modest ad revenue. So far, this has worked best for curators, scavengers and commentators - the three pillars of the Temple of Blog - and others who purvey short-form stuff...