The only thing I’d add to this is that the obsession of some over Mediaite’s “Power Grid” pretty much confirms something I’ve long suspected—That of…

This wiki-oligarchy presents its own sort of dangers. The movers and shakers of Wikipedia are largely hidden from public view and unaccountable for editorial decisions.…

This, then, is the goal: a system of news that realizes Dewey’s prescient notion—a framework that combines the participatory value of passionate belief with the…

Stealth marketing, direct advertisement and product placement work only on the clueless, and our immersive, hippo-like wallowing in the marketplace serves only to make us…

So this is what it’s come to: when an attention gift economy seems more practical and sustainable than an exchange economy for information commodities[.]

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Is the screen the new paper? Will publishing houses go the way of the old-fashioned record store? Is digital delivery the new bookstore? Is Google…

And why, in our modern media culture that thrives on contrarianism, is there not substantial scepticism about the web – not the slightest suggestion that…

What is less clear is how people, ideas and practices become prominent in the first place, Schaller says. In baseball, performance is likely to provide…

“So the paradox is that the Web has invigorated criticism as an activity while undermining it as a profession,” Mr. Scott said.

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I decided to read Little Dorrit four ways: paperback, audiobook, Kindle, and iPhone.

via Reading Dickens Four Ways – ChronicleReview.com.