"I think we may see search fall as the sole or even key means of discovery and filtering of quality content. I see three rings of discovery today: search (Google); algorithms (see: Google News, Daylife); and humans (see: Twitter). "

"It's simple. You create it. You're heard. You earn. "

"To make the articles more palatable to marketers, AOL’s system will also screen pieces for grammar, spelling, even plagiarism, before going through a human editor. "

"Journalists, or would-be journalists, would bid for the right to write stories using a reverse-auction system, in which the lowest bidder “wins” — and I use that term more loosely than it has ever been used in the history of mankind."