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The world wide web is shrinking May 18, 2007

The world wide web is shrinking says Nicholas Carr in today’s Technology Guardian

Nicholas Carr: The net is being carved up into information plantations | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology

but he’s only referring to the distribution power law which is making popular sites more popular.

In the end, though, the internet seems to be following the same pattern that has always characterised popular media. A few huge outlets come to dominate readership and viewership and smaller, more specialised ones are consigned to the periphery.

I’m just not sure this is the inevitable conclusion from the observation that Wikipedia is eating Google
Ho hum.

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