Friday, May 31

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weblogs and newsgroups: I looked at a story on Metafilter.com about Google and advertisements, self-described by Christophe Bruno, in April 2002 where he decided to try google.com’s ad system in order to promote poetry. He would place “ads” on google.com which were little haiku poems he had composed, and would reference different words. Google.com’s automated system figured out that his use was not for advertising, and kicked him off. Christophe Bruno in effect becomes a self-publishing news source. Metafilter.com’s site and Kafei as first poster bring the news to an audience which comments on the original article, as well as adding some additional information sources, and reshaping the discussion.

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