On Jul 5, 2006, at 10:06 PM, Jesse W wrote:
On Jul 5, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
On Jul 5, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Gregory Maxwell
wrote:
On 7/5/06, Fred Bauder
<fredbaud(a)ctelco.net> wrote:
Alexa shows CNN dropping like a lead balloon, No.
38 today (they
are
ranked 27). Perhaps they welcome a dig at the competition. BTW
we are
even with Amazon these days.
Alexa's numbers are inconsistent. Don't count on them for anything.
There certainly are some strange phenomena but there is a pattern.
There is a generational change with canned goods going down and
participatory sites going up.
CNN *is not* our competition! Not even of Wikinews! We are
*tertiary*
sources, i.e. we summarize and coordinate what secondary sources make
of actual facts on the ground (i.e. primary sources). We'd be
impoverished and in trouble without CNN, the Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy and all the rest of the "mainstream media" - We Don't Have
The Money To Pay Reporters - and even if we did, that's not our
purpose.
Jesse Weinstein
We are, in a sense, parasitic on them and other original content
providers. But they provide no significant opportunity for
participatory input. Besides, they don't cover Pokeman nearly as well
as we do.
Fred