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May 20, 2014 at 3:58 pm
It’s accurate. Facebook does throttle your posts, not that it actually matters to me. Another valid assertion is that the image of popularity influences what people will read and where they read it.
There’s much less searching out for quality. And it’s because of the environment Google has made. It’s the top half of the first page of results or nothing, essentially. You really think two newspapers, the Huffington Post, Wikipedia, Buzzfeed, Business Insider etc have the corner on quality in -everything- they publish? Rhetorical. It’s search-poisoning (SEO), publishing as spamming and clickbait that determine the lion’s share of what people actually choose to “search out.” The Internet’s front page is Reddit? The best writers are on Medium? ORLY? How on earth would one get the impression anything of this is about quality.
May 20, 2014 at 4:08 pm
The National Inquirer + SEO = Today’s World Wide Web
I have found that RSS is my friend for keeping up with persons and opinions that matter.