Posts tagged ‘Media’

The Future of Magazines

May 4th, 2009


Listening to the mighty Democracy Now, which on May 1 was broadcasting from Wisconsin (Wishconsin represent) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Progressive, a magazine founded in 1909 by badass Fighting Bob La Follette (below) a man who clearly never had any use for the ‘thumbpoint’ so beloved by modern day Democrats.

In the interview, The Progressive editor Math Roschild says something really interesting about the future of magazines. Instead of espousing the viewpoint that magazines need to go the Web 2.0 route or become aggregators for blogs, he goes the ...READ MORE

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February 16th, 2009

the joys of participating in the ultra-participatory world that is the internets. i have some completely not-based-in-reality-or-knowledge thoughts about marxism, the internet, and intellectual property/capital – 3(and a half) things i know nothing about.

but instead i will spare the sod and just hit you with this gem of a comment that turned up on eChinacities.com in response (?) to an article I wrote.

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