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Saturday, September 6, 2003

Clay Shirky: Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments…

Clay Shirky: Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content. The answer is simple: creators are not publishers, and putting the power to publish directly into their hands does not make them publishers. It makes them artists with printing presses. This matters because creative people crave attention in a way publishers do not. [Tomalak’s Realm]

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