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More on asymmetry and the web

July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Theory

If you haven’t seen it yet, Jay Rosen has an excellent run down of some of the journalistic implications of the newest Wikileaks story around the release of the Afghanistan War Logs. The whole thing is really interesting and you should read it all, but one of the most interesting for me was his fourth [...]

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A Myth I Want to Believe

June 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Theory

It’s hard for me to reconcile this idea with this blog. Oh well.

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Culture for Change

June 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Theory

One of the reasons I haven’t been writing here as much is because I’ve been writing a couple articles for other sites. One of those is part of a multi-part series for WebTrends on iterative marketing. Part two is now live. If you missed it – part one is here.

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The Importance of Farmville

June 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Theory

Among Time magazine’s 50 Worst Inventions there are many that probably deserve to be there: Hair in a can, the parachute jacket, and popup advertising among them. But two that stuck out to me as being misplaced on the list though were Foursquare and Farmville. Both are regular targets of ridicule as time-sinks, examples of [...]

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Conservation of Detail

May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Theory

“If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.” – Anton Chekhov Let me just get this out of the way: As a devoted Lost [...]

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