Comments on: Google Wants Your Links, Not Your Content

By: Orbiting the Google — A Gravitational Pull Affecting Our Lives and Thinking « The Scholarly Kitchen

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:14:37 +0000

[...] a year ago, I covered a piece Scott Karp wrote about how Google doesn’t want your content, just your links. And recently, our own David Crotty made a comment in which he said, “Google’s business is [...]

By: Questioning the Attention Economy « The Scholarly Kitchen

Questioning the Attention Economy « The Scholarly Kitchen — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:51:18 +0000

[...] attention economy,” and Kent has addressed the subject several times, notably here and here. Newspapers like the New York Times bought in, and abandoned their subscription-based [...]

By: Service or Content? Another False Choice « The Scholarly Kitchen

Service or Content? Another False Choice « The Scholarly Kitchen — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:47:26 +0000

[...] Savikas argues that content is a service, a perspective I’m fairly sympathetic to. After all, Google doesn’t want our content — it wants our links. They have turned content into a service to the tune of a few billion dollars. So has Amazon [...]

By: USPS = Spam in Meatspace « The Scholarly Kitchen

USPS = Spam in Meatspace « The Scholarly Kitchen — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:51:37 +0000

[...] USPS force publishers to confront even more directly the inefficiencies of print publication? Are delivery and distribution really the Achilles’ heel of the print paradigm? [...]

By: “New” AP Strategy Is Nothing New « The Scholarly Kitchen

“New” AP Strategy Is Nothing New « The Scholarly Kitchen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:01:58 +0000

[...] the AP is on the wrong side of this. As a post last week here explored in more detail, aggregating links is where the real power online is, not in aggregating content and getting [...]

By: David Crotty

David Crotty — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:12:03 +0000

Speaking of the Google Books settlement, there’s an interesting article on how things have shaken out that’s likely to give Google a perpetual monopoly on access to the world’s orphan works:
http://techliberation.com/2009/04/06/limited-and-temporary/