Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article:  Cottrell, Robert (February 15, 2013), Net Wisdom, Financial Times, Retrieved on 2016-06-22
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    22 JUN 2016

     The Importance of Old, Well-Written Articles

    ...we overvalue new writing, almost absurdly so, and we undervalue older writing. I feel this market failure keenly each day when I recommend a fine piece of writing that deserves to be read for years to come and yet will have at most two days in the sun. You never hear anybody say, “I’m not going to listen to that record because it was released last year,” or, “I’m not going to watch that film because it came out last month.” Why are we so much less interested in journalism that’s a month o...
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    Folksonomies: writing reading pertinence new
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    If 99% of new content on the Web is worthless, how do we surface the old content for new eyes?

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