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The News
THE News, indeed! – pray do you call it newsWhen shallow noddles publish shallow views?Pray is it news that turnips should be bredAs large and hollow as the owner’s head?News, that a clerk should rob his master’s hoard,Whose meagre salary scarcely pays his board?News, that two knaves, their spurious friendship o’er,Should tell the truths which…
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Solving a tiny footnote puzzle in journalism history
I love the Internet, for all the usual reasons, but today it helped solve a tiny puzzle over a footnote in a book called Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson. In the book (first published back in 1983), Anderson quoted a line from Hegel that has been much copied. Here’s an excerpt from the London Review…
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How to monetize your death threats…
Doc Searl‘s response to the Kathy Sierra death threats saga leaves me cold. As does the Tim O’Reilly/Jimmy Wales ‘badge’ of blogging idea. (Sierra, incidentally, runs a very entertaining blog.) Still, there are two basic points: If people threaten violence online, it’s a police matter. The police can’t police online very effectively. What the online…
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What the duck…