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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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AP on Times Online
The AP‘s Matt Moore has a piece out on European newspapers – European Papers Upbeat on Survival. It has an interesting nugget on the Times: Zach Leonard, the digital media publisher for the Times, said pressures of the online world were forcing old journalists to learn new tricks. For example, search engines’ tendency to reduce…