The Bet: In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times' Web site.
The Result:Blogs win.
Dave Winer is right. Informed people will look to amateurs they trust for the information they want.
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haha wat a quick result~~~but it doesnt work that way~~~google cannot determine the difference between quality of the post on weblogs and nyt
Dave Winer is right. Informed people will look to amateurs they trust for the information they want
It seems like a logical evolution. The key word here is "trust"! The big boys can have a lot of motives to slant the news to fit the company line!
Dave Briggs :~)
what would be interesting to see though is how many of those blog newsstories that topped the NYT were quoting a NYT story as their source. while blogs push news, media companies with their journalists still most of the time break news.
so even if in the long term blogs win, they actually might lose, because they just don't have the resources to do the digging.