Every penny ante blogger with big dreams latched on to this piece in the WSJ a few weeks ago, specifically this line: It takes about 100,000 unique visitors a month to generate an income of $75,000 a year. Forget it. Clay Shirky, who has major cred, writes that the WSJ piece is “worthless as a…Continue Reading…
Can any of you Joe “catastrophe” Romm loyalists explain the purpose of the Tom Friedman seal of approval at the top of Climate Progress? I mean, all of you regular Rommians already know how “indispensable” the blog is, right? Or is the Friedman liplock meant for new tourists? Is that supposed to cinch the deal…Continue Reading…
I’ve been chewing over this column by Nicholas Kristof since yesterday. Of course, he’s not the first to observe the central paradox of our revolutionary new medium: it gives us infinitely more and varied perspectives, yet it also abets increasingly polarized debate. Kristof, in ruing the latter, gets the big picture right. But in making…Continue Reading…
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