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@JPBarlow oh, and please tell David thank you for covering for me. Grateful.

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@digiphile Merely that I felt drawn, nervey, and stretched as I landed.

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@JPBarlow Thanks for asking, John. He is OK, but a knee operation at 80+... you know? I am really sorry I couldn't be there. Apologies!

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In England, at night, in a room beside a murmurring weir on the River Kent, the Northern rain falling on the water.

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Arrived London in a dim and neurasthenic dawn, ghosted and winded by a night flight with a streaming cold.

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Flying to London to see my Father, a copy of Nabokov's lost masterpiece "The Original of Laura" in my bag. Its subtitle is "Dying is Fun."

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@dangillmor I see he's been tenured since the 1990s. Well, there's not much the faculty can do, unless he's convicted of a crime.

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@dangillmor I see your point about not employing war criminals, but don't you think Yoo might be a bracing teacher in the context of UC?

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@dangillmor Ah, that's different. The Dean didn't think he'd be a bracing POV in a liberal school; the faculty voted to keep him. Very bad!

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Reading Paddy O'Connor in the TLS on Bennet's new play, "The Habit of Art," about Auden & Britten, I wonder: does the Homintern still exist?

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@dangillmor I don't know if he is tenured, or just a lecturer. Do you happen to know? If a lecturer, it's the Dean's decision.

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@FredDavis oh no, I'm so sorry. Be well!

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@carr2n tell me if this actually works.

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@LizzieWurtzel Oh gosh, we are both clearly children of the 80s. I was listening to it Sunday. Poor old Johnnie Ray...

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RT @venturehacks 1 out of 2 startup dollars would be better spent if it were set on fire. If you're lucky. I'm talking about you.

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Interesting, via James Fallows. What do the Chinese see as threats? http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/assets_...

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Indeed, @jayrosen_nyu, the "high-value advertising" you wrote about will probably be (from the advertisers POV) some form of lead-gen.

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I would only add this mild corrective, @jayrosen_nyu: lead-gen is not a future subsidy, but is, rather, fully established with B2B media.

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At home in Boston on a morning of melting snow and wintry blue skies, writing my column for the January issue of Technology Review.

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I missed @jayrosen_nyu Nov 14th good, complete list of future subsidies of journalism: http://jayrosen.tumblr.com/post...

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@davewiner No, in the sentence "Technology is important because it empowers people," "technology" is the subject, not "people."

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It's snowing in Boston.

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@jayrosen_nyu News is a commodity with declining value relative to time, and thus cannot tolerate pay walls. But other media, sure.

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Today's poem is Donne's "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning." http://www.luminarium.org/sevenli...

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Technology Review celebrates Vestival in this very special photo. Vote for your favorite sweater vest. http://tweetphoto.com/5829477

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@lcornell If it would make you happy, then I shall.

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@vestival it's the most important festival of the year.

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I am, in fact, wearing a sweater vest (from the Isle of Mull, actually), because today is Vestival.

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Men in blazers (who are not legitimately regimental officers in mufti) are like men with luxuriant moustaches: essentially untrustworthy.

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@hummingbird604 That geoengineering is, suddenly, serious, because we are running out of choices. The climate is changing *fast.*

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