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Why no wedding videos on local news sites?
One of my guilty RSS pleasures is Intern Alexis at Gawker and her weekly rating of weddings reported in the New York Times (previously satirised here), and more recently the New York Post. Sadly the absence of such public nuptial reportage in the UK denies social satirists valuable additional material. But seriously, are there not…
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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…