Mahesh
News propeller head
Help. News. What is curation? Curation. Web curation trend. Content farms. I've been writing a lot about so-called 'content farms' in recent months - companies like Demand Media and Answers.com which create thousands of pieces of content per day and are making a big impact on the Web.
Both of those two companies are now firmly inside the top 20 Web properties in the U.S., on a par with the likes of Apple and AOL. Big media, blogs and Google are all beginning to take notice. The Case Against Links. Links - are they a net negative for readers online?
That's the idea being deliberately explored by a number of publishers, says writer Nicholas Carr today. The iconoclastic author says that he has grown sympathetic to the thinking of Steve Gillmor, the almost incomprehensibly future-bound sage tech journalist who has argued for years that "links are dead. " Links within articles are a distraction and imply that the reader ought to leave what they are reading to read something else, Carr says.
Placing links at the end of articles is more respectful of a person's intentions and concentration. Do you think that's true?