Bob Cohn
Bob Cohn is the editorial director of theatlantic.com.
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Jul 27 2009, 1:32PM
"Radar" O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly has 833,025 followers on Twitter. No doubt more by the time you click over to his account. And he's written 7,688 status updates. Not only that, but as one of the smartest writers and thinkers on technology, he's devoted some time to figuring out what Twitter really means -- and how he can best use it. He compares himself to a point guard on a basketball team -- "handing out assists" by "using my retweets to build the visibility of others and create and foster a community that cares about the ideas, trends, and people that I care about."
Jul 17 2009, 11:35AM
Information May Want to be Free. But Not Journalism.
My first real job in journalism was writing about labor unions and workplace issues. Brushing up, I read a book called The Teamsters that was then about six years old. It was an amazing history of power, greed, and crime at the most powerful union in the world, back when unions had real power. The author, a Yale Law school grad named Steve Brill, published the book when he was just 29. He went on to an impressive career as a media entrepreneur: founder of American Lawyer magazine, founder of Court TV, founder of Brill's Content, columnist for Newsweek. Now he's got a plan to make journalism pay, and it begins online. Hint: "The Atlantic is idiotic to give its stuff away for free." (Note to my old boss and friend Chris Anderson: He's not so enamored of the Free concept.)
Watch my interview with Brill from the Aspen Ideas Festival after the jump.
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