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Time Tries To Rack Up The Pageviews With A List Of 10 Songs That A Writer Happened To Hear This Summer [Yay, Journalism!]
Posted on August 25, 2008
Not that I expect the lumbering newsmagazine Time to be cutting-edge or anything, but its oddly timed package The Songs Of Summer 2008 sure does provide an argument in favor of the microcriticism service Blippr. The list, which is presented in the time-honored listicle spread out over ten separate Web pages so as to maximize clicking form, basically collects 10 songs that have nothing in common except for their having been played on commercial radio sometime this year. (Maybe even as early as February!) You'd think that a publication that fancied itself to be Web-savvy would have been all ...
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