Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web?

O’Reilly Radar - Last year, Bill Janeway really got my attention (pdf) when he noted that “over time, Wall Street ‘firms began to trade against their clients for their own account, such that now, the direct investment activities of a firm like Goldman Sachs dwarf their activities on behalf of outside customers.’” [...]

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The internet shrinks your brain? What rubbish

Times - Of course, what all three of my Jeremiahs entirely miss about the internet is its quality of engagement. That’s what makes the new era so much better than the television age.

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The Columbia Journalism Review’s Division Over Dissent

Slate - When does dissent become Untruth and lose the rights and respect due to “legitimate dissent”? Who decides—and how—what dissent deserves to be heard and what doesn’t? When do journalists have to “protect” readers from Untruth masking itself as dissent or skepticism?

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The greatest show the world has ever seen

Independent - It was all that was promised here in the fabulous chameleon of the stadium known as the Bird’s Nest. It then spread like the magic fire of some great forest across the vast and, for so long, hidden land. This, it was hard if not impossible to dispute, was the greatest [...]

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Art historians outraged over Berlusconi decision over painting

IHT - The government cover-up making headlines in Italy this August has been over its clumsy attempts to hide the truth. The truth, in this case, refers to an 18th-century allegorical figure in a painting by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo that serves as a backdrop for government news conferences in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s official residence. It [...]

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On the Public Sphere, Deliberation, Journalism and Dignity

ResetDOC - We are facing a generation who is getting all its information online. The consequence is that one’s points of reference are so multiple that they may not intersect and a common world may not emerge. But fragmentation can also bring effervescence - says Seyla Benhabib, philosopher and Professor of political science [...]

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Total eclipse of the sun

Telegraph - In other parts of the world, the sun was completely hidden by a total eclipse.

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