links for 2009-04-13

This leads me to another thing that is very characteristic of a certain type of “influential journalists”: they tend to confuse the practice of journalism with the business of journalism.

"I find our lack of a good, well-read online-only newspaper very depressing. And the only thing stopping it is a lack of a big name. Someone who’s mere involvement would get clicks. For the first week — the buzz would be about it being new, but from there on in it’ll be the content that brings them back." Dave Lee calls on Piers.

Google doesn’t really need your content, because there’s plenty more where it came from. What Google really needs is your links, i.e. your votes for content — it needs your help separating the wheat from the chaff on the web.