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We are rapidly moving to a scenario where there is no ____ media. There will only be content producers, content consumers and content curators/arbiters.

This has the consequence of Bill O’Reilly being forced to compete with funny-captioned cats, but that is your brave new world of equal attention opportunity for content.

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[...] In the news cycle, memes spread more like a heartbeat than a virus » Nieman Journalism Lab The New York Times reports today: ‘For the most part, the traditional news outlets lead and the blogs follow, typically by 2.5 hours, according to a new computer analysis of news articles and commentary on the Web during the last three months of the 2008 presidential campaign.’ By that measure, I’m past due in responding, but here’s why the Times has it wrong. [...]

Depending on phrases as a tracking mechanism might also be fundamentally flawed. Blogs typically quote reports from mainstream sources. Mainstream sources rarely quote directly from blogs, from my experience in the tech space. Heck, they barely link out to any of them. Certainly I know some stories do get originated out of blogs — I’ve seen this first hand. But if the mainstream sources don’t acknowledge this as much as the blogs do, that can produce a skew.

Still, I guess it’s a start.

Mark, I agree with you but would defend the study, which is only partially focused on the whole MSM vs. blogs thing. There’s a lot of valuable analysis in there, more of which I’ll highlight tomorrow. Glad you’re looking forward to it, Anthony. —Zach