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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The digital revolution has given journalists some fantastic tools. Web sites like Google and Wikipedia give us instant access to voluminous research on virtually any subject. Cell phones enable us to become news photographers. Sparked by blogs and YouTube, the Citizen Journalism boom has taken shape.
But there is one technological breakthrough that I could happily live without. It is the innovation that allows anyone who peruses an Internet news site to see which stories are the most read and the most emailed (as well as, on occasion, the most blogged).
Further, Internet executives can glean such valuable information as exactly how much time we're spending on a specific story online and even what we're watching on television at that very moment. (Just kidding, of course, with the TV bit, but you get my drift.) Is nothing private?
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Even though this editorial has more to do with mainstream news sites, it could almost be fitting in our industry...do page views REALLY matter?