From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be in the Media

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

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Gladwell Hates Most In Anderson What He Fails To See In Himself

Gladwell Hates Most In Anderson What He Fails To See In Himself.…

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A Literary Legend Fights for a Ventura County Library

“Libraries raised me,” Mr. Bradbury said. “I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When

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Wikipedia’s new editing policy isn’t the end of the encyclopedia’s democratic age

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.

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The truth about grit

Although this field of study is only a few years old, it’s already made important progress toward identifying the mental traits that allow some people

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Common Knowledge

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

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