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Archive for March, 2009

Mar
19/09
Brother, can you spare a micropayment?
Last Updated on Thursday, 18 February 2010 02:22
Written by Chris Magyar
Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Dan Gillmor, the head of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, has been enjoying a feisty and controversial run as guest blogger over at Boing Boing, calling for, among other things, a bloody revolution against the government for its collusion with financial institutions. (Okay, to be fair, he’s merely been wondering and questioning, loudly, why such a thing hasn’t already occurred.) Now, he posits a future for the news industry, in which the nation’s largest papers coalesce their newsrooms into one hegemonic entity that charges a subscription, thereby locking all the in-depth breaking news behind a wall.

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Mar
12/09
The new ‘rithmatic
Last Updated on Monday, 22 February 2010 02:37
Written by Chris Magyar
Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Here’s an eye-opening paragraph from a larger article that peels apart the layers of Jim Cramer’s position as a market expert, now under public attack from Jon Stewart’s Daily Show: (more…)

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