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Two word review
See it.
Let them eat snot
Scott Rosenberg sources Cluetrain in his latest piece, about Microsoft's e-quivocations on the outage matter.
Gonzo culture hackery
The latest EGR is out.
Financing our Renaissance
Arkady on Kuro5hin comes up with an interesting way to fund the work we share on the Web. Here's an appetizer:
To solve this problem, we need to look back to the first Renaissance to examine how it was financed. The blooming of the arts and music by which the Renaissance acquired its name was made possible through the investment of the wealthy in the production of public art. This system of patronage allowed artists to focus entirely on their work without the need to finance themselves.
Naturally, we would not wish to replicate a system which makes cultural production dependant on the whims of the rich, whose tastes are notoriously fickle. Fortunately, the past few hundred years have seen the rise of another concept which, when merged with a system of patronage, may provide a solution.
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