Saturday, January 14, 2006

One-stop site for blogs offered - The Boston Globe

One-stop site for blogs offered - The Boston Globe: "A new Boston website aims to bring order to the tens of millions of weblogs proliferating online and provide one-stop shopping for overwhelmed Internet surfers. In the process, it could put some cash in the pockets of Internet scribes pecking away in obscurity.
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One of Gather's new voices belongs to its new financial backer Manzi, who posted an article yesterday extolling the merits of the Gather model. ''No longer must I accept much of my content from what I have called the Literary Industrial Complex, that group of concentrated media organizations with their small elites and self-reinforcing arbiters delivering my news and information 'top-down,' " Manzi wrote, casting Gather as a democratic alternative to the mainstream press."

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