Category Archives: Commons

We Need Whole News

Journalism is in trouble because journals are going away. So are broadcasters that do journalism rather than opinionism. Basically, they are either drowning in digital muck or adapting to it—and many have. Also in that muck are a zillion new … Continue reading

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We Need Deep News

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter. — Thomas Jefferson News is the first rough draft of history. — … Continue reading

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Is Mastodon a commons?

Glenn Fleishman has a lucid and helpful introduction to Mastodon in TidBITS that opens with this: Cast your mind back to the first time you experienced joy and wonder on the Internet. Do you worry you’ll never be able to … Continue reading

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