In the publishing world, there’s nothing more valuable than the power of recommendations, especially if thousands of people are making them. They drive page traffic and sell ads. I might be at the anal-retentive end of the spectrum, but publishers love people like me, reading their stories and sharing them with friends. They think that’s [...]
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The Day Sharing Died: How Publishers Are Ruining Reading, Facebook, and Friendship
Posted by Stefan on April 9, 2012
http://kam.ph/2012/04/09/washington-post-social-reader-is-ruining-facebook/
Steve Jobs and the Autumn of American Hope
There’s a reason for this. There were two pieces of major news last night: the growing (positive) unrest at the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the world’s reaction to the death of Steve Jobs. Let’s start with Steve. After he died, he got the best public eulogy anybody could hope for. The magazines that covered [...]
Posted by Stefan on October 6, 2011
http://kam.ph/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-and-the-autumn-of-american-hope/
Discussing Immigration
I was at Cinema 21 on Friday evening to participate in a Q & A session with Eric Byler, the co-director of 9500 LIBERTY. The film chronicles the birth and death of a law in Prince William County, Va., that required police to arrest people if they had “probable cause” to believe the person was [...]
Posted by Stefan on July 18, 2010
http://kam.ph/2010/07/18/discussing-immigration/