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...Compounding the book's hamfisted nature is its tendency to sound like an apologia for the Chinese government. For instance, the Naisbitts blame "the Western press" for stoking fear about the 2003 SARS epidemic and contend that "Chinese media broke the news of official suppression of information about the SARS outbreak" in Beijing in 2003. In fact, the cover-up was revealed by Jiang Yanyong, a courageous Communist Party doctor whose statement on the subject was first published in TIME. The Naisbitts' claim that Hong Kong people "never really demanded" democracy is also nonsense, given the massive demonstrations that took...
...reason for my nighttime writing adventure was to see what life is like on a massive content farm. I was working for Demand Media, the content-provider start-up that has quickly become the Web's least understood and most vilified juggernaut. The company has come up with a ruthlessly efficient way to churn out stories it knows will be profitable online. The topics may seem bizarre, but the method, though controversial, is unquestionably a success. (See the best social networking applications...
...including eHow.com Cracked.com and Livestrong.com that receive 100 million hits a month - more traffic than any of the digital properties of Disney, NBC, ESPN or, yes, Time Inc. The company, based in Santa Monica, Calif., is also directing an army of freelancers to write stories that appear in traditional media outlets, most notably in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's weekly travel section, and a Demand executive says more deals with large off-line brands will be announced soon. (See the 50 best websites...
...finely tuned assembly line is the brainchild of Demand's co-founder Richard Rosenblatt. Best known as the CEO of Intermix Media, owner of MySpace, when the company was sold for $580 million to News Corp. in 2005, Rosenblatt says he learned from his experience with social networks that there were plenty of people producing reams of data online. "But only 1% of that was relevant to more than just people's friends," he says. "What if we could find a way to find those content creators, tell them what to write and create a broader audience...
...much as Demand execs say they don't want to do journalism, they think they can offer it some help. The company envisions its how-tos running alongside stories in more traditional media, sharing revenue and reducing the need for news outlets to produce certain types of service-oriented content. "We're not saying we're going to save traditional media. That's arrogant," Rosenblatt says. "But we're definitely not going to kill...