The New York Observer discovers that Susan Sontag may have plagiarized a couple sources in her final essays, digging through her old speeches with a fine-tooth comb. The article raises an interesting question for this new era of quick and dirty posts--how do you write a short piece about a completely foreign topic without misappropriating the work you used for research?
Steve Bryant reports on the most post-modern use of MySpace in television storytelling, ever. Check out his essay and ReelPop, and ponder the ways you can twist reality with webby references. "There have been real murders investigated on MySpace -- only clicks away. So last night, when the Bones squint squad perused MySpace for clues to the killer, what was the lesson? Is this the online version of the William Bass Body Farm? Six degrees of separation from a serial killer? My Top 8 as the usual suspects? Social networks as lineups?"
Webby poet Robert Bruce releases his second Knife Gun Pen Broadside, "Jesus Wants To Make You A Millionaire." Could these PDF poems that you can "print, hang, trash, post and email it around as you see fit" going to help poetry survive in a rapidly changing publishing market?
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