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Rumors of the Web’s death may be exaggerated

Wired's headline says the Web is dead, but that's a bit of an exaggeration.
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In which a choice is made

This is, perhaps, the best illustration I have seen so far of what Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus is about -- at least the best illustration in comic strip form.
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Cognitive Surplus and The Shallows

I am cur­rently read­ing Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky. I’m about a third of the way through it, and I hope to post a few thoughts here when I have time to set them in electrons. I also bought The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, which I will read imme­di­ately after Shirky’s book. I imag­ine that [...]
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Cooperative commenting

Important thoughts on com­ment­ing from Jeff Jarvis: Once we in media are fin­ished with our work we allow the pub­lic to com­ment. We throw our prod­uct over the wall and let peo­ple react while we retreat into the cas­tle and shut the gates so we can­not hear them. They know they are talk­ing to bricks [...]
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Info about Twitter for journalists

An absolute bevy of infor­ma­tion for jour­nal­is­tic uses of Twitter from Mr. Steve Buttry. Read it, and read the arti­cle he links to by Julie Posetti; it’s an analy­sis of Twitter use by Australian journalists.
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