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Reason Magazine by David Harsanyi | Dec. 29, 2007 (Review)

Keen refuses to confess that there's even a smattering of intellectually and culturally worthy user-driven content online. If you do find something decent in the "digital forest of mediocrity," he attributes it to the infinite monkey theorem: Even simians, if permitted to indiscriminately hit a keyboard for an infinite amount of time, will one day bang out Beowulf or Don Quixote. (Silly me, I was under the impression that monkeys had hatched the idea for ... Full Story »

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 by Donald Carl Isenman - Oct. 1, 2008

It was fun to read if only because of Harsanyi's amusing approach to the fulminations of the book's characterizations of blogdom. In importance, it would seem the reviewed book's author might have waited a few years (25?) before his pronouncements on such a large phenomenon. 175,000 new blogs a day are a lot to digest, though, so I suppose the book would be just what those who have already made up their minds might want to read. I won't, so it was good to read this review. dci

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