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July 18, 2004

Doc: "Take down your costwalls!"

In a rare Reaganesque moment, Doc demands of the NY Times, LA Times and other newspapers that remove their content from public Web access after a week or so: "Take down your costwalls!"

He's responding to a piece by JD, who cites Adam Penenberg of Wired who asks: "How can the mighty New York Times, which considers itself America's paper of record, be the paper of record in cyberspace when its articles barely show up on Google?"

Posted by D. Weinberger at July 18, 2004 02:33 PM

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Simple. The New York Times doesn't need Google-juice to be authoritative. They're *already* authoritative.

Posted by: Seth Finkelstein | July 18, 2004 03:08 PM

Apparently not on the Web.

I'm taking "authoritative" to mean "taken as the authority."

Posted by: David Weinberger | July 18, 2004 06:26 PM

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