Atlanta Reconstitution

Many 19th-century newspapers are comprised primarily of content from other newspapers. And there are lots of ads, too.

Listicles, aggregation, and content gone viral: How 1800s newspapers prefigured today’s Internet "If you think BuzzFeed invented the listicle, you haven't spent enough time with 19th-century newspapers, because they're everywhere." That's Ryan Cordell, a Northeastern University professor who researches virality in 19th-century newspapers, during a talk he gave recently at MIT. …

"I have been in more than 300 American communities, but I have never found one needing a comprehensive survey and a successful plan upon which to operate so much as Atlanta. Nor, indeed, to be just, have I found conditions more generally favorable for such a plan."

What Atlanta Most Needs and How She Can Get It THE CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1912. By DR. J. HORACE MacFarland Atlanta is sick, "pow' ful bad off," as Aunt Lizbeth might say, and what she needs is drastically recommended b...