New York Times and the Guardian: Best Buds of the Alphabet Google
September 12, 2015
i read “The New York Times and The Guardian Sign On for Google and Twitter’s Instant Article Push.” The main idea is that dead tree outfits are getting with the real time content thing.
Now don’t think about PointCast and the Rupert Murdoch dalliance. Don’t think about push and pushlets. Don’t think about BackWeb and Active Channel.
Think about instant articles. These enable a mobile user “to quickly pull up stories,” presumably with split infinitives.
I am not a fan of the notification approach to information access. My approach is to use a variety of Stone Age tools to locate information. I am one of the folks in Kentucky who thinks Homo naledi is a cutting edge group.
My hunch is that the traditional publishers see the Google thing and the Facebook thing as a new source of revenue.
My hunch is that these hip, online outfits want to extend their control over certain types of content.
Control may be more important than money to the Alphabet outfit. Facebook is the new CompuServe and emulates its walled garden approaches.
How will this end? How does one spell “Google”?
Stephen E Arnold, September 12, 2015
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