Will the New York Times pander to bloggers?
Posted below is a screen shot for today’s most popular technology stories (linked to by bloggers) at The New York Times. As you can see, nearly all of them center around online media rather than offline gadgetry (the only one not about online media focuses on a new kind of camera). That’s not surprising, since bloggers tend to link to articles about the media in which they work. This trend could possibly explain the “blogger” stories like the one I wrote about earlier today.
Of course the newspaper can’t ignore the traffic numbers. And the editor of the paper has already said that one day, in the not so distant future, the New York Times will be an online-only news source. Given this, will more and more of its focus shift away from the real world to this virtual one? Will they just start churning out ego-boosting profiles on bloggers knowing that they’ll reward them with lots of links?
Here’s the screen shot:
Wow, great minds think alike . (see comment).