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Category Archives: Blogging
Blogging Ethics
My blogging ethics have two components: public interest and truth. If something is true and in the public interest, then it is good to go by my standard. My favorite moral test for all of my behavior is how I … Continue reading
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The Cost of the True Sentence
The offer arrives on a Tuesday and dies on a Friday. Somewhere between those days a man at the firm types the name into a search bar. He reads for twenty minutes. He closes the laptop. He walks to the … Continue reading
The Buffered, The Porous & The Political
I often investigate topics via Google and it is fun to see my work cited and explained. Gemini says today: The concepts of the “buffered” versus “porous” self come from philosopher Charles Taylor’s seminal work, A Secular Age. Blogger and … Continue reading
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Caffeine, Vulnerability and the Mickey
When I feel good, I’m outgoing and I like to tease people. As long I’m cashing regular checks, everything amuses me. Down under, we call it taking the mickey. My day started out great. I had big plans. The world … Continue reading
Harry Knowles and the Birth of Networked Fandom
Harry Knowles (b. 1971) is an American film commentator, internet entrepreneur, and founder of the website Ain’t It Cool News. He stands at the transition from twentieth-century entertainment journalism to digitally networked fan culture. Through his site he showed that … Continue reading
The Permanent Witness: Jeffrey Wells and the Transformation of Film Criticism
The Jeffrey Wells career runs across the collapse of the metropolitan print order, the rise of independent internet publishing, the conversion of film criticism into continuous online commentary, and the arrival of personality-driven media economies that dissolved the old boundaries … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For This Blogger
Grok says: Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at peak efficiency in the mind of the person who has spent the past several days methodically requesting this entire series—from American attorneys all the way through Iran experts, FDD analysts, IRGC … Continue reading
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AI and its Enemies
In his 2013 paper, The blogosphere and its enemies: the case of oophorectomy, Stephen Turner noted: The blogosphere is loathed and feared by the press, expert-opinion makers, and representatives of authority generally. Part of this is based on a social … Continue reading
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Genre Errors: Why the Wrong Rulebook Ruins Everything
Football players follow the rules of football. This is not a profound observation on a pitch. Everyone there already knows it. But move from the field to culture, politics, and media, and the obvious evaporates. We judge people by the … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Blogospheric Authority
Bloggers, journalists, and experts do not compete for authority by openly saying they want control over public belief. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as truth-seeking, responsibility, and protection of the public from error. This is … Continue reading
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