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Is self-published fiction becoming fail-safe?

18-Aug-08

… and by “fail-safe” I mean safe to fail with minimal consequences. That’s the question I’m wondering about after viewing this Cory Doctorow lecture a couple of weeks ago: The transcript can be found here: http://craphound.com/cambridge_biz_lectures.txt A few key quotes: The Internet turns out to be much better at allowing people to form groups than [...]

Clay Shirky Web 2.0 speech – updated

28-Apr-08

A quick bookmark post on Clay Shirky’s Web 2.0 speech from last week. It’s a great read in its entirety. Here are my favorite sections: So I tell [a television producer] all this stuff, and I think, “Okay, we’re going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever.” That wasn’t her question. [...]