My dear friend Carmen Benitez sent a story to me a couple of weeks and I’ve had to take that long to really absorb it.
You see, it’s about algorithms becoming better storytellers than journalists, and I’m not sure how I feel about it.
A couple of months ago, I was speaking to a group of business leaders. One of the attendees told me he pays $50 a day to an Indian firm to have them scrape content off the Internet and change it “a little bit” so he can post it on his own blog. (more…)