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    From Nieman Reports: Maria Popova on the critic as celebrator
    “But in conceiving of criticism as a value system for what is ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ worthy or unworthy, there is another, implicit shape ‘criticism’ can take — a celebration of the good by systematic omission of the bad.”
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    Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance
    “You can be the sole owner of a Jackson Pollock or a Blue Mauritius but not of a piece of information — not for long, anyway.”
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    Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship
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