Category: writing
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What Happens When The Publisher is a Casino
Last year I was happy to receive a gifted subscription to The Athletic, a subscription-based sports outlet. It has some fine writers. Now they’ve partnered with a sports gambling company, BetMGM. Nando Di Fino: From the day we started the fantasy sports section, I’ve gotten one question, repeatedly:“Why Chris Vaccaro?”But a close second is, “When…
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The Plagiarizer
IGN recently fired an editor that covered Nintendo platforms and software, Filip Miucin, when it was discovered that he had plagiarized a review for Dead Cells from another video review. This situation was awful enough, but IGN’s managers did a good job of resolving it quickly, and I thought it could be an opportunity for…
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The Medium Car Crash
Evan Williams and his work are profiled in the New York Times by David Streitfeld. He’s behind Twitter and Blogger. There is one good point that succinctly explains a big problem with the web today: The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and…
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Mark Twain’s Autobiography, This November.
Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate, one of Mark Twain's dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted the last decade of his life to writing is finally going to be published. via After keeping us waiting for a…