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Trials are terrible things in that they bring people together.
My friend was murdered in 2000. I think this is a pretty good description of what it’s like to attend the trial of the man who is accused of committing the crime. -
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Skim This and Skip That: ‘Daily Beast’ Tries to Build a Better Mousetrap, Fails
10.06.08 | Permalink | 9 CommentsFirst of all it’s been about 45 seconds since I’ve clicked the damn thing and I still I haven’t read a word of it because the site is too slow to load. And they don’t have an RSS feed that’s available on googlereader. That’s enough for me to not care.
Daily Beast peddles web-based news and [...]
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Live-Blogging The Death Of Print: With My Mind On My Social Currency And My Social Currency On My Mind
08.04.08 | Permalink | 9 CommentsJack Shafer pens a theory for Slate that newspapers are in decline because they no longer mint the social currency of cocktail conversations and barbershop gossip. Next to social media and microblogs like Facebook and Twitter, the daily paper can’t keep up with the conversation.
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Welcome To The Future: Get Off Your High Horse And Make Way For My Segway
07.30.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThe New York Times’s “Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?” would have lost me from the start — I try not to read anything in with LOL-speak in the title — were it not for my morbid curiosity about how badly Print Media fucked up the debate about the internet and literacy this time.
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Postcards From The Isle of Irrelevancy: Three Shameless Magazine Tactics That Won’t Work
07.22.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAs ad sales dry up and youth-oriented magazines close shop, the glossy-paged world is getting increasingly desperate to rebuff its critics by generating buzz. The most recent round of death rattles proves ever more firmly that they’re still completely mystified by how to evolve.
Esquire: Rehash The PastEsquire is having hard time coming with the [...]
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Get Thee To A Library: Author Boo-Hoos His Own Inability to Read Text Messages, Function In Society
07.09.08 | Permalink | 8 CommentsMark Bauerlein doesn’t think you’ve got the chops to finish reading this sentence because the internets turned your brain into mushy goop. Back in his day, they had to walk ten miles through the snow…
Sorry, pops. TLDNR.
Bauerlein’s new book, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, or Don’t [...]
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