Archive | February, 2008

You can have this Pulitzer when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

25. February 2008

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And, indeed that day is coming. Meanwhile, it’s interesting to see where the old bastions of power are still hanging on. By a thread. To wit, this quote from a NYT article on the Polk-award-winning political blog Talking Points Memo: Sig Gissler, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, said in an e-mail message that online articles [...]

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Amateur era

4. February 2008

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myRaganTV, a video site for corporate communicators, just posted an interview with Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture. I have to admit, I was only vaguely aware of Keen’s book and premise, which (if I gather correctly) is that Web 2.0 has shortcircuited the process [...]

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