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: It’s wonderful how quickly a dialogue can open up across blogs. Last week, I quoted Fred Wilson at the Always On breakfast on the wisdom of syndication online (using Reuters as the poster child); Rafat Ali disagreed with what Fred said there; Fred now responds and expands on his point. Over to you, Rafat.
: UPDATE (Monday): And Rafat replies.
Did anyone ask Perkins what kind of traffic AlwaysOn is getting? I still wonder how his business model — aggregating press releases, running old interviews and taking sponsorships from high school friends — has anything but code in common with blogging. I’d be less skeptical, of course, if AlwaysOn could beat the traffic of a couple of decent writers who moonlight as bloggers.