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June 11, 2014 06:28 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/VReVKKlyZAw/rarity-versus-the-internet.html
Rarity versus theInternet
Before the modern Internet, lots of media was "rare" -- bootleg recordings, strange videos, obscure bands -- but today, nothing is rare. As a consequence, Rex Sorgatz argues, the social capital that comes from having an encyclopedic knowledge of some band's b-sides has been greatly diminished, and the Comic Book Guy school of know-it-all-ism has transformed itself into the nitpicking commentariat. Read the rest
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