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Title: Wolff's Dunciad
Review: As someone who works online for a large and lumbering giant I found Michael Wolff's account of the rise and fall or Wolff New Media hilarious and poignant. I recognised many of the types, and even more of the lines they used.All around this business there are people who are asking themselves the central question he poses (and getting depressed by the reply). Is the web media? Only partly. Is it communications? Only partly. But content is expensive, chat is cheap.In the 1720s, appalled by the explosion in the print media and the grim quality of most of what was being published, Alexander Pope wrote The Dunciad, denouncing all the Dunces - the incompetent poets and pamphleteers of the day. Wolff is like Pope - amazed and revolted by the birth of a new mass (communications) medium which has empowered the hucksters, shysters and illiterates of the world. In the eighteenth century the poets and the printers survived. And so did Pope.
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