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more about #clayshirky more comments → braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Yeah, hm. I'm not sure, but I think this is exactly how it's supposed to happen, isn't it? Amazon has a problem with their catalog system, that no on... more » Slovenly Muse: I disagree with you about intention. Yes, intention is a major part of the issue in regards to how we should judge Amazon, but if someone runs over me... more » SeaBassTian: "Intention is what we were reacting to, and the perception of intention matters, a lot. If you hit me with your car and kill me, the effect on you cou... more » lustylady: Oh, typos - sorry, at the end that was supposed to say EW. more » lustylady: Sorry if those links don't work - I'm not seeing the preview option or I'd have used it. more » lustylady: I think it's also important to keep in mind that many of us were Tweeting that it wasn't just gay books. It was many of my heterosexual and pansexual ... more » Mark A. Michaels: I should add: sorry for the run on sentence. But more importantly, the "glitch" has not been resolved. Although the rankings have been restored, the p... more » Rasselas: Professional wrestlers deride "cheap heat" (in what I can only assume is an unconscious echo of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer's condemnation o... more » limber: Thanks for that, Clay. I especially liked this bit: No one gets cataloging "right" in any perfect sense, and no algorithm returns the "correct" resul... more » ChampagneSherpa: "They didn't intend to silence gay-themed work..." But they *did* Blanche, they did! And I'm sure they would have fixed it incredibly quickly had ther... more » ADismalScience: Never forget the impact that self-reinforcing, echo-chamber outlets like blogs have on public discourse. They distill and focus those emotional respon... more » Jon Pincus: Repeating the comment I made on Clay's blog ... "If it had been a critique of those stupidities that circulated over the weekend, without the intentio... more » tunamelt: Well, if nothing else, be outraged at the shitty PR handling of the situation from Amazon. more » Hydroceph: "An infinite number of monkeys banging away on keyboards will eventually produce works of genius." [en.wikipedia.org] Thanks to the internet, we now k... more » 2001: A Space Odyssey: Google books, particularly good for research. more » -
#twitterati
MC Hammer in Demand As Business School Lecturer
Ben Huh ate spoiled mayonaisse; KFC inspired a foodie; and MC Hammer knows more about social media than some MBA students. The Twitterati displayed questionable taste. More » -
#amazonfail
Twitter Meets Mass Hysteria
Now that it appears that last weekend's Amazon-banning gay-books Twitter storm was much ado about nothing, Clay Shirky has an insightful essay, "The Failure of #amazonfail," about why it's hard to let the outrage go. More » -
#literature
The Internet: Good for Reading
Victoria Blake told NPR today that she started her own publishing company when she realized she was just wasting her free time reading Gawker. Have trashy websites like ours killed literature? Au contraire, yall! More »
