From ink to hyperlink

Just in case you doubted the power wielded by bloggers in cyberspace, Slate gaming columnist and all-around tech maven Clive Thompson shares some highly-scientific proof on his blog. Noting that more and more newspapers are requiring subscriptions for on-line content (a la the WSJ), he asks:

But what happens to a paper’s readership and influence when it puts up the gates in cyberspace? Bloggers don’t link to it, which means it vanishes from Google and spirals into a cycle that eventually erases it from the mindspace of the Internet.

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