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Last night at Zap, we were all talking, and one of the really talented young guys named Steve Garrity is currently creative director at silverorange, came up with a great metaphor for blogging, i.e.
"If blogs are printing presses, and if Big Media is the Catholic Church, then clearly Dave Winer, must be Martin Luther!"
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"If blogs are printing presses, and if Big Media is the Catholic Church, then clearly Dave Winer must be Martin Luther!" Footnote: Buzz Bruggeman blogged this remark from a recent chat with Steve Garrity . [Read More]
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For the record, I was summarizing a point by Rob Paterson and the "if big media is the catholic church" was something like "if disney is the vatican". Great talk, Buzz!
Posted by: Steven Garrity | October 25, 2003 at 11:37 AM
What ever happened to Luther? Wasn't it something painful?
Posted by: Phil Wolff | October 25, 2003 at 05:04 PM
Not Luther. Maybe Knox if we need a rule of links... and other obediences.
Posted by: Alan McLeod | October 25, 2003 at 07:28 PM
As far as I know, Dave was not one of the four who wrote the modern 95 theses. (cluetrain.com)
Posted by: Hanan Cohen | October 25, 2003 at 10:41 PM