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Adams's wonderful essay on the return of interactivity into human culture, responsible for at least two of the best quotes on understanding the internet – one about technology being "natural" if you were introduced at a certain age, and the other about how technology allows us to return to being villagers…
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Pew's analysis of agenda-setting in participatory and professional media, based on story by story analysis in 2010
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A Chinese expert makes the (eminently believable) claim that Chinese is now the second-most prevalent language on the internet, behind English
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Emily Bell identifies a whole in America's journalistic picture – regularly updated, centrist, fact-based reporting on international situations – and suggests that the weakness of American public media may explain the absence
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Excellent Quantified Self overview article, focusing on the Boston community, by Emily Singer
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Helpful reflection from Michael Nagle of the Boston Quantified Self group on QS projects that are focused not wholly on body/health but on broader definitions of self