Indeed, some of the valuations attributed to social news might have gotten too aggressive, but the power of social media is certainly not to be disputed.
The downside, could be argued, is that vlogging was introduced to mass murder, but the flip side is the speed that info gets out.
Look at the top results for Cho Seung-hui, the Virginia Tech shooter, Wikipedia, Digg are the top results, the third one is AOL’s Newsbloggers, followed by mainstream media’s CNN, Yahoo, FoxNews. I can’t speak for FoxNews cause I don’t read it as much… but I am sure that CNN and Yahoo! do not even archive news stories forever (probably due to the nature of their deals with AP), so that means that those will fall off even further.
Wikipedia of course will never go anywhere, and shall remain the top result forever.
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