Cults of authority

Last month, I wrote a post about IAC's recent decision to stop producing a print…

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Community organizers

[What follows is an update to "The library within us". As the introduction notes, I've…

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The engagement economy

The third section of Book: A Futurist's Manifesto includes a chapter, “The Engagement Economy”, written…

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Election day

More than twenty years ago, Greil Marcus published Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural…

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Having enough

I'm continuing to write a set of Sunday posts that revisit in turn the ideas…

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Convince me

In June, Microsoft announced that the next version of Internet Explorer, its widely-used operating system,…

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Breaking the bank

In April 2009 I wrote a post, "Curation nation", that looked at what publishers, booksellers…

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Missing the boat

At the end of March 2009 I posted "Publishing's real problem", which considered whether consolidations…

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