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Notable recently

How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong (NYT): Retrospectives from people closely involved with the deal, including Steve Case of AOL and Jerry Levin of Time Warner.

Nil by mouth (Robert Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times): The film critic can no longer eat, drink or speak: “So that’s what’s sad about not eating. The loss of dining, not the loss of food. It may be personal, but for, unless I’m alone, it doesn’t involve dinner if it doesn’t involve talking. The food and drink I can do without easily. The jokes, gossip, laughs, arguments and shared memories I miss.”

‘Conversations with the Internet’ – Biz Stone of Twitter (The Rumpus):  “We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was a great idea for some other people. That’s a dangerous way to go because if you don’t actually use it yourself and love it, then you aren’t going to be as fully invested in it from the start. That’s what leads you to doing side projects.”

Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture (Zeldman): “…there’s gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes. We are not clairvoyants, so we cannot say which fledgling, presently little-read web publications will matter to future historians. Thus logic and the cultural imperative urge us to preserve them all. But how?”


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