Television swallowed up millions of man-hours of free time by drawing people into a shared passive addiction. Prior to the age of TV, never before had such a large number of people done the same thing at the same time…. Read More ›
Cognitive Surplus
The thirst for response as a fuel for the Internet
Over lunch one day an acquaintance of mine criticized my theory of response. “Not everyone writing on the Internet is doing so in order to get a response,” he said. “Take me, for example – I have a blog about… Read More ›
The Emancipation of Authorship. This picture explains everything
Free content, the crisis of media, guerilla journalism, death of newspapers, content marketing, Arab Spring, social media boom, the Viral Editor, civic journalism, the end of the Gutenberg era, the shortening of the length of reading, the debates on the… Read More ›