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The Curious History of the Kama Sutra
- hobbs 18y agoCome again?
- jpeterson 18y agoThere seems to be some governing dynamic at play here. Every social news site, regardless of its initial focus, eventually converges on sex, politics, and pictures of cats.
- fiaz 18y agoIndeed....a group is its own worst enemy: http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
- marvin 18y agoWhat! I was tricked into upvoting this story around the 8th paragraph before I realized that this is nothing but a commercial for a fresh-from-print book. I expected that it was an article discussing the Kamasutra itself. Call it what you will, but a book review that disguises itself as a genuine news story is dishonest, and I find it very annoying.
- hobbs 18y agohttp://paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- josefresco 18y agoExcellent article and thanks for the link. "PR people fear bloggers for the same reason readers like them. And that means there may be a struggle ahead. As this new kind of writing draws readers away from traditional media, we should be prepared for whatever PR mutates into to compensate. When I think how hard PR firms work to score press hits in the traditional media, I can't imagine they'll work any less hard to feed stories to bloggers, if they can figure out how." That is why TC and Google (who both rely on the traditional PR/Media relationship) are so quick to bash concepts like PayPerPost which is basically what Paul is describing above, PPP provides direct access to the bloggers (no smoke and mirrors)