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Color - Social Trap or Gesture?
Last week I received a nice response to an earlier post about network proximity. Referring to that piece, a Belgian digital media strategist named Jourik Migom made the comment that "proximity is the...
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Lakers & Celtics: Publishing Industry Metaphor?
OK, the Lakers won't be adding another ring to their collection, at least not this year. Neither will the Boston Celtics. As an admitted diehard fan, I accept Kobe's absence in the finals with the same...
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All the news that's fit to hack
The PBS web site was hacked last weekend in retaliation for a WikiLeaks piece that appeared on its Frontline news program. An outfit called LulzSec took credit for the attack, one of several it...
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Anthony Weiner and the Morality of Technology
OK, so it's over. Weiner resigned. Notice we didn't use the punch line "pulls out," surely not the way this embattled Congressman envisioned his legacy. But tag lines are the price of notoriety, so...
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Murdoch & Cameron: Phonegate Taints All the Prime Minister's Friends
Extra, extra! Tabloid chief running out of staffers and family to throw under the bus.Rupert Murdoch goes on a mea culpa walkabout while his henchpeople either fall on their swords or report by...
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The Narrative Graph
Union Square Ventures is not in the habit of backing losers. Its portfolio reads like a Who's Who of cutting-edge social media companies. Fred Wilson, well-known USV principal, is a social publisher in...
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The Social Narrative of Steve Jobs
I was in Kenosha, Wisconsin when I heard the news about Steve. Like those other moments, when I heard about JFK or John Lennon, I remember the physical context, early evening on the high prairie, dark...
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Occupy World News - Social Signals and Gestures
Occupy Wall Street has spread far beyond its initial context. Not only has the spirit of resisting, or at least aggressively questioning the global economic crisis gone mainstream, it's occasionally...
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The Social Publisher
The title of this piece also reflects the new name of this blog. While "Save the Papers" sounded good in early 2009, when we started writing about changes in the publishing business, today's world...
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DeLillo and the Triumph of Solitude
Los Angeles Review of Books - "DeLillo and the Triumph of Solitude"DeLillo's masterpiece Underworld performs a relentless evocation. Layers of images from film serve as backdrop for characters...
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