February 2005
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Unlinking From Social Networks: Part 2
My project to unlink myself from the dozens or more social networking apps I have registered with is gaining momentum, and a lot of heat. The back channel — where dozens of people have emailed me asking me what the hell I’m up to — has been four or five times as active as the public interchange here at Get Real and over at Operating Manual for Social Tools (a project now...
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The Day Gonzo Died
Jeff Angus, over at Management by Baseball, gives a send up for Hunter S Thompson: “I think he created a lot of the foundation that evolved into the smashmouth Internet and TV journalism tradition that features adversarial in-your-face criticism. I think Thompson, however, picked targets he truly disliked. He didn’t just go out of his way to fabricate his disdain in order to have...
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JD Lasica on "We Are The Media"
JD Lasica concludes several weeks guest blogging at The Importance Of with a big question, one that I have been puzzling over recently: What will happen when we become the media?. He notes that the recent Gnomedex conference seemed a sort of turning point for the new media crowd:
As Adam Curry noted in his keynote, “We are the media.” There’s no doubt about that now.
The...