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Since nothing on the Web is authoritative, it’s up to you to consult enough sources so that you can make up your own mind.  This is the end of spoon-fed orthodoxy and infallible institutions, and the rise of messy mosaics of information that require — and reward — investigation.
    —    Chris Anderson
 From his book:  “The Long Tail
[It requires effort and thought – there is NO hope for humanity!    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
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2020 Give Me A Minute To Think About That…
November 3rd Is Coming!
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2019 Is #45 Warning Alabama Again?
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2018 Worry (x2)
2017 Still Working
Gold In The Morning Sun
2016 Power Inside
2015 Sometimes I Feel Small
2014 It Slipped Away
2013 Corollary
2012 Working Retired
2011 The Web Is Not Authoritative! (Really?)

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The main risk with blogs is the distraction of too many leads to pursue, not too few.  Anyone who is reading online and not enlarging their cultural perspective has either found some remarkably barren corner of the blog world or needs a refresher course in the meaning of hyperlinks.
    —    Chris Anderson
From his book:  “The Long Tail
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On This Day In:
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2020 So Far The Only Burden Shifted Has Been The Cost
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2019 The Powers Of Mind
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2018 Up For Progress
Day 1.5: Done (For Now)
2017 And Second By Second
2016 Bakeries And Coffee Shops
2015 Spirit Not Form
2014 Sometimes Even Kneeling Seems Insufficient
2013 Hobgoblins
2012 Got Sleep?
2011 Not Another Barren Corner

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Fundamentally, a society that asks questions and has the power to answer them is a healthier society than one that simply accepts what it’s told from a narrow range of experts and institutions.
     —    Chris Anderson
From his book:  “The Long Tail
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On This Day In:
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2020 Making Potential Come True
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2019 Duration Unknown
Day 6: Almost There
2018 Just Trying To Be Me
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2017 A Letter To 45
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2016 REDs
2015 Cities
2014 Still
2013 Dare = Hope
2012 Check My Math
2011 Just Asking

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Although the decline of mainstream cultural institutions may result in some people turning to echo chambers of like-minded view, I suspect that over time the power of human curiosity combined with near-infinite access to information will tend to make most people more open-minded, not less.
    —    Chris Anderson
From his book:  “The Long Tail
[Boy, is this guy an optimist!!!    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2021 Driving To Your Destiny
Angels
2020 It Almost Certainly Will If #45 Is Re-elected
Sssshhhh
2019 Deciding, Doing, Done
Day 5: Getting Easier
2018 Thought Experiments
Day 38: Going Crazy
2017 Which Did You Learn?
2016 Shape And Limit
2015 Me Either
2014 Just Business
2013 Beautiful Adventure
2012 Precedence
2011 Ya Think?

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But punk rock changed the game.  Punk rock said:  “Okay, you have your guitar, but you don’t have to do it right.  You can do it wrong!  It doesn’t matter one bit if you’re a skilled musician, it just matters if you have something to say.”
    —    Chris Anderson
Quoted from his book:   “The Long Tail
[I always thought I didn’t like punk rock because I was getting old.  I didn’t realize it was because they REALLY were just bad (unskilled) musicians.  It doesn’t matter if you’re not a great musician.  It does matter (to me, anyway) if you’re not even trying to get better.  Say what you’ve got to say, be a poet, writer, speaker…   —    kmab]
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Finally it’s worth noting that economics, for all its charms, doesn’t have the answer to everything.  Many phenomena are simply left to other disciplines, from psychology to physics, or left without an academic theory at all.  Abundance, like growth itself, is a force that is changing our world in ways that we experience every day, whether we have an equation to describe it or not.
    —    Chris Anderson
 From his book:  “The Long Tail
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The problem is that we have a hard time putting rare events in context.  In any given population there will be a few people who are tremendously rich.  Some are smart and some are lucky and we really can’t tell which is which.
  —    Chris Anderson
From his book:  “The Long Tail
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The overwhelming trend of our age is to take products that were once delivered as physical goods, find ways to turn them into data, and stream them into your home.
    —    Chris Anderson
Quoted from his book:  “The Long Tail
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On This Day In:
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2020 Better Sooner Than Later
2019 Possibilities And Challenges
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2018 What I Tell You Three Times Is True
2017 And So On
2016 Kept
2015 Envy * 2
2014 Destiny For The Talented
2013 I Do Not Fear It
2012 Until Found
2011 Reducing Goods To Data
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In a world of infinite choice, context — not content — is king.
    —    Rob Reid
Quoted from:  “The Long Tail
Written by:   Chris Anderson
[If the customer can’t find you, it doesn’t matter how good what you’re selling (or its price) is.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
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2017 Forms Of Conservation
2016 Oh, So Lacking
2015 e pluribus unum
2014 Nothing So Far Removed
2013 Positions
2012 Two Errors
2011 Long Live The King!

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The big sin in exposure culture is not copying, but instead, failure to properly attribute authorship.
    —    Tim Wu
Columbia University law professor
Quoted from:   “The Long Tail
Written by:  Chris Anderson
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On This Day In:
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2018 Don’t Break It
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2014 Returning Time
2013 Gentle Invitation
2012 Pleading The Insanity Defense
2011 Graduations And Conservatives
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What makes Wikipedia really extraordinary is that it improves over time, organically healing itself as if its huge and growing army of tenders were an immune system, ever vigilant and quick to respond to anything that threatens the organism.  And like a biological system, it evolves, selecting for traits that help it stay one step ahead of the predators and pathogens in its ecosystem.
     —    Chris Anderson
Quoted from his book:   “The Long Tail
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2016 Which Generation Are We?
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It’s one thing to see a movie or listen to music and to think “genius” — that some gifted person and exalted apparatus has put together this unique work of art we appreciate.  However, once you know what’s behind the curtain, you begin to realize that it could be you.  It is when the tools of production are transparent that we are inspired to create.  When people understand how great work is made, they’re more likely to want to do it themselves.
    —    Chris Anderson
From his book:  “The Long Tail
[It could be you, but do you want to?   —   kmab]
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On This Day In:
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2020 Find An Antidote
2019 Take A Few Minutes To Remember
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2018 You Cannot Pretend
2017 A Long Shadow
2016 Learning, Experience, Chances or Money
2015 The Critical State
2014 Dawn, n.
2013 Ouch!
2012 Just Lookin’ Around
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2011 But Do You Want To?

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Talent is not universal, but it’s widely spread:  Give enough people the capacity to create, and inevitably gems will emerge.
    —    Chris Anderson
From his book:  “The Long Tail
[This is why I’ve always favored the PC over the mainframe and the PC over Apple:  give the tools to the masses of people and the Mozart’s will emerge.  Restrict opportunity by monopoly (Apple) or access (mainframe) and we never reach the potential of human creativity.  We are more likely to find Mozart with 7 billion people typing on 7 billion PCs than we are with 7 billion people constrained by the use of only limited access on a single mainframe.  Yes, we will have more drudge to filter in order to find the Mozart, but in the end, they will emerge.    —    kmab]
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2014 I Resemble That Remark
2013 Long Range Exploration
2012 UBI
2011 Opportunity

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The advantage of probabilistic systems is that they benefit from the wisdom of the crowd and as a result can scale nicely both in breadth and depth.  But because they do this by sacrificing absolute certainty on the microscale, you need to take any single result with a grain of salt.  Wikipedia should be the first source of information, not the last.  It should be a site for information exploration, not the definitive source of facts.
     —    Chris Anderson
From his book:  “The Long Tail
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On This Day In:
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2014 Your Gain
2013 Look Up
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Once upon a time, talent eventually made its way to the tools of production;  now it’s the other way around.
    —    Chris Anderson
From his book:  “The Long Tail
[We can only hope this is (and remains) true…    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
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2019 Happy Meeting Day 35 (And Counting)
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2016 Picture Perfect
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2012 All Set
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