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The Power of the Written Word

Susannah Meyer | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Galileo, Gutenberg, Written Word, Magna Carta, Martin Luther, Writing, History of Print, Egypt Revolution, Teen News
Susannah Meyer

We can spread awareness of anything happening in the world, large or small. We may be able to prevent a negative outcome that could have arisen from help coming too late. And that can make all the difference.

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Who Bears The Burden Of A Broken Global Economy?

Vanity Fair | Michael Lewis | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: World Economy, Gutenberg, Wall Street, Hitler, Economic Recession, Euro Debt Crisis, Double-Dip Recession, Great Recession, Vanity Fair, Greece Debt Crisis, Standard & Poor's, Moody?S, Der Dukatenscheisser, Business News

With Greece and Ireland in economic shreds, while Portugal, Spain, and perhaps even Italy head south, only one nation can save Europe from financial A...

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What Makes A Book Rare?

nytimes.com | SAM ROBERTS | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Ereaders, John Bidwell, Morgan Library, Gutenberg, Rare Books, Morgan Library and Museum, Digitalized Books, J.P. Morgan, Gutenberg Bible, Books News

Before he became the first name of a bank, J. P. Morgan was a Wall Street mogul who, a century ago, bequeathed his collection of 14,000 or so rare boo...

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WATCH: 600 Year Old Book Found In Sandy, Utah

Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: 1494, Bible Companion, Nuremberg Chronicles, Video, Bible, Gutenberg, Old Book, Nuremberg, Cradle of Printing, Books News

Appraiser Ken Sanders says it's the find of his career: a copy of "The Nuremberg Chronicle," published as a companion to The Gutenberg Bible, in 1494....

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Gutenberg of Arabia

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wael Ghonim, #jan25, Internet, Facebook, Malcolm Gladwell, Egypt, Gutenberg, Egypt Revolution, Mark Zuckerberg, Hosni Mubarak, Printing Press, Media News
Jeff Jarvis

There's a silly debate over the credit social tools should receive in the revolutions in the Middle East. This same alleged debate goes on to this day over Gutenberg, too.

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What Wikileaks means for the Financial Services Sector...

Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Internet, Gutenberg, Bible, Bradley Manning, Freedom, Julian Assange, Wikileaks, Amazon, Business News
Brett King

The major news feeds of the world are buzzing with the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London today. Assange was arrested based on an ex...

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The Gutenberg Bible: A Question of Biblical Proportion

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Nypl, Johannes Gutenberg, Gutenberg, Movable Type, Gutenberg Bible, New York Public Library, New York News
The New York Public Library

Every year on Aug. 24, a spotlight is shone on the famous, world-changing Gutenberg Bible. Email inboxes flash the seemingly credible information that on this date in 1456, the Bible was completed.

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Amish Romance Fiction: Why Is It On The Rise Again?

Bloomberg Businessweek | Spencer Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Pennsylvania, Dutch Country, Amish, Gutenberg, Genre Fiction, Romance, Mennonite, Bestsellers, Books News

Legend has it that the first thing Gutenberg printed on his press was a beloved German poem. The second thing was an article on the death of publishin...

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Can The Internet Save The Book?

Salon | Julie Klausner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Macmillan, Book Publishing, Publishing, Literacy, Gutenberg, Publishing Industry, Penguin Group, Book Culture, Amazon, Google, Clay Shirky, Books News

In his 2008 book, "Here Comes Everybody," Shirky imagined a world without traditional economic or political organizations. Two years later and Shirky ...

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Will 2010 be the new 1517?

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Martin Luther, Gutenberg, Social Networking, Innovation-Online-Politics, Technology News
Craig Newmark

I've been looking for lessons from history regarding social media, and found a nerd/policy wonk partnership that was enormously successful: Johanness Gutenberg invented mass media, via the printing press, but it didn't go anywhere for a while.

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Google Isn't (Necessarily) Making Us Stupid

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Yoga, Plato, Don Quixote, Twitter, Gutenberg, Betty White, Xbox, PlayStation 3, Facebook, Alex Ross, Barack Obama, Ipad, Iphone, Nicholas Carr, Youtube, Meditation, Socrates, Snl, Buddhism, Huffington Post, Shakespeare, Media News
Michael Sigman

My own meditation practice -- which facilitates clarity and focus -- has benefited incalculably from Buddhist and other spiritual websites, blogs, lectures, readings, videos and guided meditations.

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Has The Internet Brought Us Together -- Or Pulled Us Apart?

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gutenberg, Salman Rushdie, Internet, Birthers, Truthers, Email, Blackberry, Online Dating, World News
Johann Hari

The internet has transformed the way we think about ourselves. The story of this decade is the story -- in all its strange sinews -- of the World Wide Web.

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The Coming Newspaper Renaissance: Instructions for Survival

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Laermer.com, Warren Buffett, Media News, Editorials, Newspaper Death Knoll, Newspaper Renaissance, Womens News Columnists, Death of Old Media, Gutenberg, Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize, Media News
Richard Laermer

From whence will the Newspaper Renaissance hail? It will start with papers moving away from their belly-buttons and instead examining their core businesses.

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Bye-Bye Books

Charles Warner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gutenberg, Books, Death of Print, Demise of Print, Printing Press, Publishing Industry, Journalism, Media News
Charles Warner

Disruptive technologies like the printing press and the Internet are no longer appearing every century, or every decade, or every year; they are appearing every month.

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Tolstoy and the iPhone

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Iphone, Ipod, Publishing, Books, Stanza, Digital, Ebook, Audiobooks, Librivox, Gutenberg, Ereaders, Media News
Hugh McGuire

Reading digital text on a small handheld device is nothing like reading text on a computer (desktop or laptop). A mobile device is much more comfortable, for plenty of reasons.

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