Archive for November 15th, 2006
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Even Better
It wasn’t Dan Bricklin. Bricklin’s April 23, 2001 essay, “Pamphleteers and Web Sites: There is a similarity between the pamphlets of the American Revolution and today’s personal web sites” credits the meme to former Washington Post reporter Chris Daly — and Bernard Bailyn’s part of the story, too:
A few years ago, while doing thinking about […]
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
The Origin of an Idea
“Bloggers are the new pamphleteers.” How many times have you heard this said? And how many differet people have you heard it attributed to? Since I’m on a Friday morning panel discussing E.J.Dionne’s Thursday night Theodore H. White Lecture, “The Making of Democracy 2006: How the New Media and the Old Media Could Live Together […]
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
The Broken
“Slaves and mobs have always indulged themselves in the same excesses, when once they broke loose from authority,” wrote Mary Wollstonecraft in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She was thinking of the moral degradation of womankind that attended their subjection, but also, as the philosopher who had earlier penned the first rejoinder to […]
