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Link Economy Challenges Mount as Economy Falters

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With the Web’s advertising engine stalling just as newspapers are under pressure, some publishers are second-guessing their liberal attitude toward free content.

“A lot of news organizations are saying, ‘We’re not willing to accept the tiny fraction of a penny that we get from the page views that these links are sending in,’ ” said Joshua Benton, the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard. “They think they need to defend their turf more aggressively.”

via Copyright Holders Challenge Sites That Scrape Content – NYTimes.com.

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Written by Barbara K. Iverson

April 24th, 2009 at 7:46 pm

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Jeff Jarvis gets interviewed about “link economy.” This is a clear, well-illustrated explanation of the link economy. Paidcontent, media guardian, and Technorati are Jeff’s current “can’t do without sites.”

Written by Barbara K. Iverson

February 5th, 2009 at 1:43 am