George Rush
Nick Denton tells a crowd there isn't enough Internet gossip
It's by now a bromide that the line separating author and audience is now nearly totally erased, aided by the quick publishing and broadcasting mechanisms, many offering a near guarantee of anonymity, available to anyone with a secret to share with the world. Denton's counterintuitive argument is that digital culture has not forced more "open secrets" like Cooper's sexuality, or at the very least secrets known by a surprisingly large number of people, into the mass consciousness. More
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