Ironically the Drudge Report headline reporting on the study that internet news becomes old after 36 hours has been listed as developing for 12 hours with no link to the study.

The clock is ticking Matt.

For those actually interested in the study Editor and Publisher has an article on it:

The report, “Fifteen Minutes of Fame: The Dynamics of Information Access on the Web” is a collaboration between Prof. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi of the University of Notre Dame and colleagues in Hungary. The study’s model shows that the structure of a typical news site is not unlike that of a biological cell, with a “skeleton” that stays stable while temporary “nodes” (stories) come and go.

“While fifteen minutes of fame is still an exaggeration in the online media, we find that access to most news items significantly decays after 36 hours of posting,” reads the report.

Update: Guess that news became old in less than 36 hours. The headline is gone.

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