AWJ - My question about content farms - Journalism at Westminster

02/04/2011

AWJ - My question about content farms

Not sure if any of you will have remembered this. But I asked you a couple of questions at the start of the day. What is a content farm, why exactly are they such a big deal, how big a deal are they and why might they be a worry for Google and for you as would-be journalists?

Lots of questions - I'm going to try to see if anyone has an answer - if not, I might get you to write an answer on your blogs for next week.

4 Feb 2011 16:22:06 | AWJ, AWJ - Session 3

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