Fallows: Google's AdSense completes Internet publishing revolution

Google's AdSense technology, James Fallows says, "completes the publishing revolution brought on by the Internet. The first stage was the liberation of the reader, who, thanks to browsers, could look at publications in any part of the world. Next was the liberation of would-be publishers. Thanks to blogging tools, anyone can present his or her views online. And now, thanks to automated ad sales, small publishers have a more viable hope of creating a business, and keeping independent voices, than they did even a year ago. A. J. Liebling's wisecrack that "freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one" takes on new meaning when technical and financial barriers to creating a Web-based press drop so low."

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1 comments about 'Fallows: Google's AdSense completes Internet publishing revolution'

this was inevitable. personal publishing - made possible by the web - not only allows freedom of the press but turns readers into authors. its a revolution. what a great confidence building device.
but are we also not running the danger of bringing back the babble ?

Posted by buroshiva dasgupta at June 19, 2004 1:54 AM

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