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08 Sep 2009 02:42

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Music: Pitchfork spews forth a torrent of Beatles reissue love

  • 5,390 words on the Beatles’ reissues were published today – and they’re not even done yet!
  • 9.3 average score of the five albums they reviewed – “A Hard Day’s Night” was the best at 9.7 source

31 May 2009 12:11

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Politics, Tech: The evolution of the art of writing in the age of blogs

  • print Philip Greenspun of MIT argues that, before the Web, you could either write books or mid-sized articles of four to five pages. Publishing was constricted.
  • web When the internet first came about, he argues, it allowed for long articles – 20 to 30 pages – to be easily printed. But short bites didn’t make sense online.
  • blogs His argument concludes that blogging solved the biggest problem of the media age – now people can easily write short. Well, that’s what we’re doing, anyway. source