I think it's too fragmented, there is too much "noise" and somehow there has to "re-aggregation of the fragmentation" - RSS overload, too many social networks, blogs etc. There are some companies working on such aggregation. Getting to the quality content is becoming harder - yet at the same time you want to leverage the "wisdom of the crowd". I don't totally support Andrew Keen "The Cult of the Amateur" but there are aspects that do I agree with. The current search engines while improving are really inadequate - I don't think so much dependance on "popularity" is the way to go - the systems are being games - witness Digg - and how a small group of influences can determine popular content - the filters have to be more complex (of course Google does not tell us how they set the variables ! ) The role of "editors" or content is critical - I remain fascinated as to what a new media company looks like in a world of search, social networking and fragmentation of content and audiences.
Can Facebook and Twitter really help our business? Since we are controlled distribution (we are adding subscriptions in 2010) model how can they help us? We really need help in ad revenue (ad pages) and not publicity.
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