links for a wednesday (18-07-07)

· Lawrence Lessig has a brilliant deconstruction of the central arguments in Andrew Keen’s book “The Cult of the Amateur”. I heard Keen interviewed on the sunday night safran podcast recently and was aghast at how many things he simply got wrong in his rambling attack on internet culture. Lessig pulls nicely at the edges until the whole thing becomes a donut.

· An article from a couple of years ago about how to snatch an expiring domain. What makes this an especially great read is that the domain in question was www.newsvine.com.

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