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Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
When did you read this post?
A team of Hungarian researchers sampled server logs at an online news portal
to determine how long a news story remains current,
and found that
the majority of online news items have a lifetime of just 36 hours....
After just three days, most people who are ever going to read the item have
already done so. Even with an archive, online reporters cannot pretend they
are writing for posterity.
posted:
9:50:22 AM
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