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“You have to be paid in order to be good.”

Thomas Carpenter, general counsel for legislative affairs for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, quoted in the Huffington Post. Sounds like a very old-fashioned sales pitch. Linked In News Post Forum

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The distinction between paid content and free content has ALWAYS been bogus

Producing content has always cost something. Whether it was paid in cash or whether the costs to produce content were covered in some other way (that does not involve money) is not the issue. The issue is that today when … Continue reading

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Users buy containers because they expect to get value out of their contents

Actually, containers are very similar to markets — the containers I am talking about are words: more specifically, keyword domain names. Whereas suppliers use these containers to advertise and sell their goods and services, consumers use containers to express their … Continue reading

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If words weren’t here, I don’t think…

I’m working on an essay related to that title — and although the idea behind the essay is based mostly on my own ideas and also ideas Noam Chomsky shared in a talk he gave in Köln last year, the … Continue reading

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Irrational denotations off the deep end

Whenever I read something David Brooks has written, I always regret it. It leaves me with something worse than a stale aftertaste… — I feel like I have to take a shower or something. So when Paul Krugman mentioned in … Continue reading

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Cory Doctorow is able to make reading news about the behavior of illiterate people entertaining

For example: The [aforementioned] rule of thumb works for cars, for houses, and for every other substantial area of technological regulation. Not realizing that it fails for the Internet does not make you evil, and it does not make you … Continue reading

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Social animals — such as primates — like to communicate (in order to be social)

… and humans are primates. Communicating with others can be a kind of social grooming (if we communicate about a person, we thereby care about — i.e. “groom” — them) Linked In News Post Forum

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Ideas shared online are just as authentic, reliable and trustworthy as ideas shared in printed books

There is really no difference in how authentic, reliable or trustworthy ideas are when they are shared only versus in printed matter. The main issue is that most readers have not mastered the level of literacy required to be able … Continue reading

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Latest Breaking News: People are increasingly becoming disenchanted with bogus values

Paul Krugman asks: “Could it be that traditional families aren’t as crucial to social cohesion as advertised?“ His conclusions are insightful, but I feel they are not exactly on the money. He concedes that social cohesion might have something to … Continue reading

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How to live a successful life

Yesterday, two of my friends (on 2 different online communities) shared quotes. I wrote a blog post about one — but I am rather uncertain about whether I was able to get my point across coherently or not: How to … Continue reading

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