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Re: Sunday, August 3, 2003
In response to the "The ongoing death of publishing as usual", I am interested in learning more about how content choices are made. Traditionally, a provider shoveled out content high and low in the hopes it would generate readership. If enough readers were attracted repeatedly, then the provider's content choice and the reader's selection were reinforced. Reader's only control over content was by voting with their feet. With the web, blogs and instant feedback, I've been trying to learn whether or not it is possibile to establish the relationship between content provider and consumer more quickly. IN much the same way that virtually all restauraunts allow the consumer to choose what they wish to eat, I'm interested in seeing if letting the reader chose what will be written is usefull, productive, or just plain stupid. <abasement>So, consequently< I'm comiiting the sin of using someone else's comments to toot my own horn. Specifically, I'm hosting a poll at my site, which I would like to encourage you to participate in, in which the readership can choose among five topics which I will write about. That past, I think that the simple shortening of the cycle between original idea and widespread distribution brought about by the internet hasn't really been seen at least since the invention of radio and television, but possibly since the invention of the printing press.
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