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Nancy Makin: The Internet saved my life

by Mathew on December 4, 2007 · View Comments

Forgive me for straying into what be Oprah/daytime talk-show territory, but I did think it was interesting that Nancy Makin — who recently appeared on both the Oprah show and on Diane Sawyer’s show talking about her miraculous loss of more than 570 pounds over three years — effectively gave credit to the Internet for [...]

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Not that Internet van, the other one

by Mathew on November 8, 2007 · View Comments

I have to say, when I saw the headlines on Techmeme about the “Internet van” that made history, I thought for a minute that they were all talking about the infamous Telstar Logistics van — but as it turns out, they were just talking about some old bread-delivery van that Vint Cerf and a bunch [...]

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Ego alert: Me on Internet Evolution

by Mathew on November 5, 2007 · View Comments

Just a quick post to mention that I was approached awhile back by the folks from Internet Evolution — the blogging and discussion-forum site set up by CMP and some of the team behind Light Reading (which I’m a fan of) — to see if I would contribute articles from time to time, which I [...]

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David Weinberger eviscerates Andrew Keen

by Mathew on September 5, 2007 · View Comments

He does it in a nice way, of course — and, more than that, a thoughtful and erudite way — but David Weinberger’s summary of Andrew “the Internet is killing culture” Keen’s arguments (such as they are) nevertheless dismantles and mulches the prominent pundit’s points perfectly. To his credit, Weinberger — author of Everything Is [...]

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As I wrote in an earlier blog post about Andrew Keen — author of Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture — we had a Q & A with the notorious Web 2.0 skeptic at globeandmail.com today, but despite my best efforts we didn’t get nearly as much back-and-forth as I [...]

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