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Old Growth Thinking at ESPN

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Via the NYT Today: Once ESPN establishes itself in local markets, it plans to move deeper into local sports — down to the high school level and perhaps beyond — by using social networking and other technology to inform its journalism. Sounds familiar (Steven Johnson, Old Growth Media And The Future Of News): Measured by [...]

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Steven Johnson Killing It Some More

Steven Johnson is my favorite writer. Interface Culture was a seminal read for me in college, as was Emergence. When The Ghost Map came out, hyper-local content was the buss term du jour. Johnson spring-boarded from writing a book about hyper-local information and organization to creating a digital product with it as it’s thesis. A [...]

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Steven Johnson’s New Book

It’s a another book in the vein of The Ghost Map — an idea book wrapped around an historical narrative, and like Ghost Map, it has an organizing theme of how innovative ideas emerge and spread in a society, while integrating many different threads along the way: 18th-century London coffeehouse culture; the Adams-Jefferson letters; the [...]

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Outside.In Looking for Help

I can’t say enough good things about Steven Berlin Johnson and his outside.in project. Now you can be a lead designer there! Had I found out about this 4 months ago, I honestly may have thrown my hat in the ring. This guy is a genius and his work will shape how we use the [...]

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Steven Johnson: The Pothole Paradox

(via Steven Johnson’s blog) There’s a distinctive feeling you get walking around a new city on your own — the guide books and review sites can tell you where the best restaurants and bars are, and give you the architectural history. But there’s always a feeling that you’re missing something, that the neighborhood is filled [...]

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