The Internet scholar Ethan Zuckerman compared the front page of the New York Times with that of its Web cousin and found that the print version had twenty-three references on its front page to articles in the paper (either in the form of lead articles themselves, or short summaries teased below the fold). The front page at NYTimes.com, in Zuckerman’s study, contained 315 links to articles and other forms of content. If the architecture of serendipity lies in stumbling across surprising connections while scanning the front page, then the Web is more than ten times as serendipitous as the
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