Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Terrific reply from Nicholas Carr to Clay Shirky  on the whole "television as gin" thing: "What I’m pointing out is that people were every bit as capable of living rich, multidimensional, interesting, creative, and “participative” lives before the web came along as they are today – and a lot of people did live such lives. [...]

Paul Carr writes a brilliant response to Mike Arrington’s idiotic post on reforming copyright law (by which he means "killing it"): "But for all the fancy talk about “finding new business models” to “remove friction”, which is the thrust of Arrington’s argument (in the same way as Rohypnol – and try not to wince at [...]