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Article: Tarnation! Experts Agree Internet Like 'Wild West' Since at Least 1994.
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- November 14, 2008
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Writing on The Big Money yesterday, Lesley M. M. Blume took a look at Conde Nast's Web layoffs and asked:
What is behind Conde Nast's bellicose approach to the Web? Other traditional media outlets properly regard the Internet as both destroyer and savior and have gone into overdrive to translate themselves into online brands. By axing its online properties, Conde Nast is revealing its apparent online strategy: looking the other way while Jaws devours the back of your boat.
It's a neat metaphor--you can almost hear John Williams' theme from Jaws in your head as you read it--but it doesn't have the staying power of the one proffered by an expert Ms. Blume consulted for ...