Seeds of the Future

We are the creators, How are we doing?

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Meanwhile, the Newsbreak mystery continues.

I have been wondering for a long time why I had several stories published on Newsbreak with small impression numbers and a one-to-one ratio between impressions and views. Since it seems impossible to have such a ratio with a story distributed publicly, I assumed this to be an internal Newsbreak distribution.

Then after several months, I saw messages on the stories saying they needed attention. indicating grammar, typos, and picture credits. The message promised that after fixing the errors, I would see greater distribution. The first, a story about the history of the University of Maine was easy to fix and I changed its location from Maine State to Orono. However, the new impression and views numbers are not very impressive. Perhaps Newsbreak does not think history to be relevant. My view is that a new media paradigm is in the making and even Newsbreak doesn’t know what that is becoming. To quote a recent conversation wi…