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- 20 December, 2006 -
- Journalism, Online Media -
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In his blog Rough Type Nicholas Carr compares today’s everyday blogger/citizen journalist to sharecroppers as they produce a lot of very interesting content, but some big web or big media corporation is making money off of whatever content they produced. The whole concept of sharecropping and the big media “overlords” stealing the individuals wealth really resonates with me because my grandfather grew up a share cropper in Northeast Arkansas. You can read more about web sharecropping in Carr’s post Sharecropping the long tail.
