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...humor has dignity." Schulz's name for his comic strip was Li'l Folks, which admittedly isn't that much more dignified. But the point is, if Schulz started out today he wouldn't have bothered with a syndicate. He would have taken his strip straight to the Web, and we would be watching Li'l Folks specials every year at Christmas...
There's no better textbook example of the Web reinvigorating an old-school medium than the humble comic strip. (Um, besides porn, that is.) Comic strips in newspapers are dying. They're starved for space, crushed down to a fraction of their original size. They're choked creatively by ironfisted syndicates and the 1950s-era family values that newspapers impose. But on the Web there are no space restrictions. Need I add that the same goes for family values? Now that DIY ad serving is cheap and easy, cartoonists can go into business for themselves online, and syndicates and newspapers...
Webcomics have been around since the late 1990s, and today there are thousands of them. The diversity of artistic styles is astonishing: anime, clip art, crude scribbles, beautiful finished drawings and everything in between. The Web also frees comics from the iron cage of the traditional strip format. "Being online, there's no reason our strip has to be three panels right next to each other," says Mike Krahulik, half of the team that produces the webcomic Penny Arcade. "It often is. But there's nothing keeping us from making full-page comic-book-style layouts. There's nothing stopping...
...only one who foresees Facebook as the downfall of many a political career. With pictures getting uploaded at astronomical rates, I’m noticing many of my peers partaking in various “activities” that could be perceived as unbecoming of any future politician. Web sites like Gawker and Wonkette already gleefully post photos of celebrity or politician offspring on a regular basis, so if you really want to make some quick easy bucks in your lifetime, go ahead and start saving scandalous photos of all the future politicians on this campus. Blackmail may be sleazy...
...other words, because of his strong brand, Giuliani didn't have to go on bended knee, like an ordinary politician, to the man who was to become his campaign-finance chairman. Instead, weaving a web of potential major donors became just another enterprise of Giuliani Partners. With one hand, the firm signed contracts to advise such security-conscious businesses as Entergy (a leading U.S. nuclear power plant operator) and Broadwater Energy (which hopes to build a liquefied-natural-gas terminal in New York's Long Island Sound). With the other hand, the company began reaching out to such key Bush...