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CHARLIE ROSE: Tell me about “Mafia Wars.” MARK PINCUS: Sure, so “Mafia Wars’” is a game where you form a mafia with your friends and you — it’s kind of like a game like “World of War Craft” but it happens in text and pictures instead of immersive environments. The key...
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I heard something today that made me think about the problems facing the newspaper business specifically and the media industry more generally. From Fred Wilson: I think the problem there is that journalists are not entrepreneurs. And theyre not business...
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The revolution may not be televised, but it is being broadcast. And that itself is revolutionary. I saw Neda die for the first time on Sunday. I was at home in bed, resting a laptop on my chest. In that moment, this distant girl became an actual human being, and by...
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Education is the primary source of class-mobility in America. And class mobility––along with the ability to comfortably absorb immigrants––is what has made the United States an economic world beater. Historically, the US education system was...
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This is a response to a Matthew Ingraham's post "Google helps newspapers––period." over at the Nieman Journalism Lab. I started this as a comment, but felt it needed some expanding, so here goes…In the journalism world, there's a bit of a...
