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Some Reflections on the Revolution in Propaganda

Posted on December 21, 2018 by nmw

More or less exactly ten generations after Edmund Burke’s treatise concerning the French Revolution and roughly about twenty generations after the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press, I would like to give you a small update on the state of news, … Continue reading →

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Why the Scientific Method and Open Source are Some of the Best Things Since Sunlight

Posted on June 2, 2017 by nmw

About 100 years ago, some guy named Louis Brandeis apparently said something like: Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Mr. Brandeis was speaking metaphorically (his statement was made in the context of a book titled “Other People’s Money and How the … Continue reading →

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Reading, Writing + Communications

Posted on May 20, 2017 by nmw

Five centuries ago (more or less, depending on when you actually read this), Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 Theses to the church door. In the weeks, months and years that followed, one of the most influential publications of the … Continue reading →

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Mobile First is a Special Case of Reading First

Posted on May 2, 2017 by nmw

Several years ago, there was a push towards “mobile first” publishing – the idea being that more and more people were using their mobile phones as their primary reading device. The optimization of web content for constraints inherent in mobile … Continue reading →

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For some, we get lost in media

Posted on November 9, 2016 by nmw

I opened up a copy of the New York Times today, and in an empty space within an article, there was a blurb that reads Social networks put individuals at the center of their own media universes — I am … Continue reading →

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Global Languages (and/or Classification Schemes) + Generic Top Level Domains (TLDs)

Posted on August 12, 2016 by nmw

Whereas traditional classification schemes (such as the Dewey Decimal Classification [DDC] or the Library of Congress classification scheme [LC]) have primarily been oriented towards topical segmentation of publications published by individual persons or corporate entities, I feel it is now … Continue reading →

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Owning Up to “I Own It”

Posted on March 11, 2016 by nmw

In stark contrast to my previous post, let me point out that there are plenty of dictionary-word domains that are extremely successful in the dot com TLD (“top-level domain”). Indeed, some (such as Johnson & Johnson’s baby.com) are so successful, … Continue reading →

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