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Clay Shirky Has a Big Brain

Friday, April 11th, 2008

On the trip into Vancouver yesterday, I finally got time to watch a video of Clay Shirky’s excellent talk associated with his book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. If you work with or have a passing interest in the future of the Web, find forty minutes to bask in the shadow […]

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Our eBook is Growing Up

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

As regular readers will recall, last winter we wrote and self-published a 100-page ebook on social media marketing. In terms of our goals for the project, it’s been a success.
Thanks to Kris, we kind of accidentally met a literary agent who liked the ebook and wanted to shop it around. We wrote a (mercifully short) […]

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Nicholson Baker on Wikipedia

Monday, March 24th, 2008

One of my favourite writers, Nicholson Baker, recently wrote an essay on Wikipedia for The New York Review of Books:
Wikipedia was the point of convergence for the self-taught and the expensively educated. The cranks had to consort with the mainstreamers and hash it all out—and nobody knew who really knew what he or she was […]

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