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Someone is Wrong on the Internet

I must set them straight pronto! I love this piece in the New York Times: One of the more trenchant cartoons of the Internet era features a stick-figure man typing furiously at his keyboard. From somewhere beyond the panel floats … Continue reading

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‘Against The Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob’

I’m reading this new book by Lee Siegel. It seems like a lot of twaddle. Here’s the incident that led to his book: In September 2006, Siegel was temporarily suspended from The New Republic, after an internal investigation determined he … Continue reading

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