The phrase "a mere content" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It can be used when emphasizing that something is only a trivial or insignificant piece of information or material.
Example: "The report was filled with a mere content that did not contribute to the overall analysis."
Alternatives: "a trivial detail" or "a simple element".
While metadata is significantly more intrusive into the lives of citizens than access to mere content, a warrant is required for content but not metadata.
Or is a cynical statement that any art in this digital age is reduced to mere "content"?
Today pop stars risk becoming mere "content producers," hoping we'll swipe over to their magnum opuses amid the competing distractions on our phones.
My grandfather was justifiably worried that, without the added power of his eyebrows and his voice, he wouldn't be able to impress Sasha with the mere content of his opinions.
I realize full well it may not seem fair to everyone to be calling all these sites mere content farms – that all depends on what you think the term entails, or doesn't.
It makes us regard any content of the latter sort, particularly "static perceptual content", as a mere "abstraction from dynamic content" (Mulligan 1995, pp. 195, 197).
Mental acts, he argued, are intentional, i.e., they are directed towards objects, but these objects are not mere contents of consciousness and, hence, they have a structure of their own and follow specific laws of their own.
By hosting more complex data--fully functional applications rather than mere content--ChinaCashe can generate higher margins, something like 50% higher profit per gigabyte of data, according to ChinaCache chief operating officer Richard Xu.
"The merger adds some critical components to our strategy," says Robert Burgess, chairman and chief executive officer of Macromedia, indicating that Macromedia is growing up from a mere seller of content creation software tools to a full-blown e-infrastructure company.
In May of 1995, the New York Supreme Court issued a summary judgment saying Prodigy was a publisher rather than a mere distributor of content.
