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is a mediated and hacked public space, what I mean is that Twitter, the medium as a microblogging platform owned by a corporation, was never intended to become such a vast “public” digital space. Rather, its aims were likely about networking for information and commerce, not for the goals of political and social protest, the vocalization and amplification of minority voices and points of view. Nor was it imagined as the digital space most conducive to the actual mingling of a huge multiracial, multi-bodied, multi-abled population. If the Atlantic article is right, most white Americans do The Rules of Twitter - Hybrid Pedagogy

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What’s the basis for this claim? Is the history of the company so opaque or can we actually dig for how these entrepreneurs were thinking as they experimented with a tool whose power they surely didn’t understand fully at first, either as a tool of commerce or democratization.

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Sharp teeth in a broken jaw Sleater-Kinney – Fangless

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The operative metaphors throughout this track juxtapose strength (sharp teeth) and weakness (broken jaw), perfect images for aging rockers like Sleater-Kinney. The whole album is shot through with such images of aging especially in “Bury Our Friends.”

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nations play by the rules – in how they trade, how they resolve maritime disputes, and how they participate in meeting common international challenges like nonproliferation and disaster relief. And no challenge – no challenge – poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery State of the Union Address | The White House

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In total agreement here, but it’s a bold statement. Seems like “terrorism” would be a more topical and popular claim.

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“Climate change is caused by terrorism?”

“No terrorism poses a greater threat to future generations then climate change?”

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I think that the President’s idea is more that terrorism is a contemporary problem, for this generation. Climate change, comparatively, is a problem for the future.

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spacecraft as part of a re-energized space program that will send American astronauts to Mars. In two months, to prepare us for those missions, Scott Kelly will begin a year-long stay in space. Good luck, Captain – and make sure to Instagram it. Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery State of the Union Address | The White House

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The next POTUS will quip: “Annotate it on Genius, [chosen individual representative of federal policy].”

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Dr. Jeremy Dean, Secretary of the Department of Education (Genius)

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Getting people to do good work without fighting over, say, President Obama’s speeches, is more difficult than for rap lyrics, he says. Still, Halfaker is broadly optimistic about Genius’s design. “I’m not worried about Genius getting users so much as them pulling users away from Wikipedia,” he says. Can a Rap Lyrics Website Finally Make Online Annotations Into a Popular and Profitable Idea? | MIT Technology Review

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Wow! Thanks, Aaron!!

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funny bc my sister (who’s studying journalism at MIT) just forwarded me an email announcing a “Digital Annotation Workshop – Rethinking the Connections between Annotation, Reading, & Writing”

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Update: A few hours after this item was published, Genius reverted to Faulkner’s original text and removed the “rigger” annotation. It offered no clue that things had ever been different. As I Lay Lying: The Web Fixes Faulkner - NYTimes.com

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Fair point, though it comes off rather like a child forced to make an apology. I didn’t realize NYTimes “updates” and “corrections” were allowed to have such personality!

For the record: because an error was found in the underlying text, the text was corrected and the annotation deleted. The ecosystem of knowledge production on Genius isn built to accommodate and encourage such corrections.

The annotation to the erroneous text was deleted as well. But note that it was always in fact marked as “unreviewed” meaning that a user had created it but a second user with editorial powers had not corrected it. Indeed it is critical for any savvy navigator of the web to note such sign posts of moderation. And it is even more critical that citizens of the web take it upon themselves to correct such mistakes by downvoting the explanation or noting the error in the transcription.

I’m not sure the history of this error, though, would be that interesting, at least not to those looking, as the author originally was, for more information about the story itself.

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Fair point, though it comes off rather like a child forced to make an apology. I didn't realize NYTimes "updates" and "corrections" were allowed to have such personality!

The annotation to the erroneous text was deleted as well. But note that it was always in fact marked as "unreviewed" meaning that a user had created it but a second user with editorial powers had not corrected it. Indeed it is critical for any savvy navigator of the web to note such sign posts of moderation. And it is even more critical that citizens of the web take it upon themselves to correct such mistakes by downvoting the explanation or noting the error in the transcription.

I'm not sure the history of this error, though, would be that interesting, at least not to those looking, as the author originally was, for more information about the story itself.

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“The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote, rather famously. “It’s not even past.” But that was before the Internet, which can shed the past so smoothly that we don’t even notice. As I Lay Lying: The Web Fixes Faulkner - NYTimes.com

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Is it the inherent nature of the internet to “shed the past”? Isn’t it more powerfully known as an archiving tool? For example, I can find all previous blog posts by Steitfeld for Bits online, but haven’t saved all issues of the New York Times over the past few years myself nor do I want to go to the library to look them up on microfiche:

(Indeed, as a blog, some of his posts might never have made it to print either.)

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Mode:DisableEnableAccount:SubscribeLog inThe New York TimesInternational New York TimesSearchGoShareTweetMoreSubscribeSubscribeMy accountLog inBitsAs I Lay Lying: The Web Fixes Faulkner ShareBy DAVID STREITFELDJanuary 20, 2015“These 13” is William Faulkner’s first collection of short stories.Jim Wilson / The New York Times“The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote, rather famously. “It’s not even past.” But that As I Lay Lying: The Web Fixes Faulkner - NYTimes.com

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Streitfeld has been misunderstanding the Genius project for almost two years now:https://genius.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/speak-up-the-internet-cant-hear-you

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As I Lay Lying: The Web Fixes Faulkner As I Lay Lying: The Web Fixes Faulkner - NYTimes.com

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Cute–As I Lay DYING is a Faulkner novel. But to characterize the transcription oversight below as a “lie”–the Internet or Genius or Wikipedia is lying–is to deeply misunderstand the nature of crowd-sourced knowledge production.

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“We’re developing a social network that is specifically around close-reading texts,” said Jeremy Dean of Rap Genius. Speak Up, the Internet Can't Hear You - NYTimes.com

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Still think this is a pretty compelling quote/idea. Come on, show me some love:

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