“‘You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours’ is an economy of its own.”
–Projo blogger and editor Sheila Lennon, commenting on Shelly Power’s post on the unfairness of techmeme in selecting blogs to highlight.
(Susan sez: I don’t think techmeme is unfair, but this is a great quote.)
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Yeah, not sure what fairness even means for Techmeme.
So much back scratching is built in to the way news is disseminated, there’s no way Techmeme could disentangle from that and still remain a news site.