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Re:Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" ... by lotharbot on Sunday August 28, 2011 @11:21AM (#2934066)
The internet has also lowered the barrier to finding high-quality, timely content. The best information I got regarding Libya and Fukishima, I found because it made the frontpage of Hacker News. I don't need to pay an information curator/gatekeeper because the upvotes are doing a pretty nice job of that already.

That said, when my income is a little more steady I expect to subscribe to Stratfor [0], because they offer a depth of content that's hard to find elsewhere. There are viable free alternatives to a lot of content on the web, but I haven't yet found one for that particular set of content.

[0] http://www.stratfor.com/ - strategic forecasting

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Re:Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" ... by Fluxx on Sunday August 28, 2011 @12:51PM (#2934294)
This is a huge point that I think is often overlooked. Not only is it cheaper to write and distribute content to the entire world, it's also cheaper and easier to curate all that content and offer a page full of links to it. Newspapers/reporters also served that function as well - going through all the news of the day to find the most interesting and relevant things to report on.
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