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“Love last sentence of Steve Lohr's excellent analysis of changing media landscape. - http://nyti.ms/a96qEH”

The web is dead, long live the web!

The corporations keep trying pay walls. The pay walls keep failing. The world is full of clever people.

"Attention spans evolve and shorten, as even the most skilled media jugglers can attest. “I love the iPad,” admits Mr. Negroponte, “but my ability to read any long-form narrative has more or less disappeared, as I am constantly tempted to check e-mail, look up words or click through.” And people, every bit as much as technology, shape the churning media ecology."