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Clay Shirky hat dem Columbia Journalism Review Ende Dezember ‘08 ein sehr spannendes Interview gegeben. Ich wollte schon länger darauf verweisen, bin aber nicht dazu gekommen. Gut, dass O’Reilly Radar mich eben noch einmal daran erinnert hat.
Ein paar Auszüge:
Zur Debate “Niemand liest mehr!!”:

What the Internet has actually done is not decimate literary reading; that was [...]

Yet, because a rather recent industry was built up on the idea that “copying” was rare and was only done on professional built content, it’s now trying to shut down and stomp out new means of communication just because, as a part of its nature, it allows for the copying of professional content as well. [...]

Automattic, das Unternehmen hinter Wordpress kauft also Intense Debate. Interessante Sache:

Intense Debate CTO Jon Fox explains that the platform will still work just fine on other blog systems (Movable Type, Tumblr, etc.) but that there will now be tighter integration between it and some of Automattic’s other owned systems, like anti-spam tool Akismet and Gravatar [...]

Lieber Dr. Sommer,
heißt es das API (weil das Applikation Programming _Interface_) oder die API (weil die Programmierschnittstelle)?
Hilfesuchend,
Ihr Marcel Weiß