Monday, May 01, 2006

In Internet Age, Writers Face Frontier Justice - New York Times

In Internet Age, Writers Face Frontier Justice - New York Times: "In the age of the Internet, literary exegesis (whether driven by scandal or not) is no longer undertaken solely by pale critics or plodding lawyers speaking only to each other, but by a global hive, humming everywhere at once, and linked to the wiki. And if you are big enough to matter (as any writer would hope to be), one misstep, one mistake, can incite a horde of analysts, each with a global publishing medium in the living room and, it sometimes seems, limitless amounts of time.
Frontier justice? Mob rule? Perhaps. "

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