Down the Garden Path with Google

On the subject of The Internet is off-key. The internet as we know it today works to please the advertising oligarchy. This has severe ramification on the publishing priorities. Quantity is favored over quality. The scarping and splogs dominate the internet. Point of purchase is monetized while point of information is not. The link hustlers are favored over the “creative class”. Here are the two noteworthy articles:

This disease is spreading, note what the new AOL CEO formerly of Google is doing with “journalism” – AOL Moves to Build Tech ‘Newsroom of the Future’:

“Rather than merely craft articles and passively post them on the Web, as many newspapers and magazines do, AOL is using software to determine which articles to write and then give journalists up-to-the-minute data on how much traffic those articles generate.”