By Shoq, on March 6th, 2010
Who Says: Narrative Authority In a Fragmented World
Jay Rosen tweeted this seminal post by Megan Garber, articulating what the web and digital media are doing to authority memes and journalism's role in this bizarre new world.
Since the need to manage the tangled and competing taxonomic hierarchies of such a Narrative Big Brother has been
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By Shoq, on February 14th, 2010
In an inadequately brief, but crucially important review or what is sure to be an even more important and discussed book, Ellen Ullman, asks, "is the wisdom of the crowd, actually a lie?"
A self-confessed "humanistic softie," Jaron Lanier is fighting to wrest control of technology from the "ascendant tribe" of technologists who believe
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By Shoq, on January 19th, 2010
I missed "Why this Decade Sucked," by Ed Edroso, back in December. Wish I hadn't. While it's over the top in spots, by and large, it's spot on, and reminds me of Norman Solomon's words in the mid 90s, when he quite rightly warned that the Internet would empower the status quo, while
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By Shoq, on January 2nd, 2010
In "Why Twitter Will Endure," New York Time's education and media czar, David Carr, writes perhaps the best overall description of Twitter and its overall value to civilization, better than anyone I've read in quite awhile. It's still not going to help your grandma understand Twitter, but it may help any of your
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By Shoq, on December 12th, 2009
I am trying to move to Chrome full time, but there are still not enough extensions to mimic what I do in Firefox, so I'm not quite there yet. But there are some good extensions coming online, and I will try and save you some time by recommending the best-of-breed that I've found, thus far.
I don't
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