Scoop! Newspaper Ontogeny Recapitulated!

Turbulent Velvet has a fabulous piece on pseudonymity that provides a context to the modern phenomenon by looking at pseudonymity in 18th Century newspapers. Fascinating and, of course, directly relevant to what’s going on with weblogs.

It reminds me of Dan Bricklin’s terrific piece on the ways in which 18th Century pamphlets were similar to today’s home pages. Dan wrote this before weblogs were so common so it is even more relevant today since weblogs are what home pages were supposed to be.

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