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...resort of the desperate and talentless to something more like out-of-town tryouts for theater or the farm system in baseball. It's the last ripple of the Web 2.0 vibe finally washing up on publishing's remote shores. After YouTube and Wikipedia, the idea of user-generated content just isn't that freaky anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books Gone Wild: The Digital Age Reshapes Literature | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

What makes a song good is content. I always try to write a song so that if I had written it 50 years earlier, it would have meant something to people; at the time that I'm writing it, it's going to mean something to people; and 50 years from now, it's going to mean something to people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Smokey Robinson | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...Hamill made a particularly mismatched lineup in 1992, as did Michael Jackson and a group of 3,500 children the following year. The show's most memorable glitch, of course, wasn't a casting choice: Janet Jackson's infamous wardrobe snafu in 2004 sparked an FCC crackdown on racy content and prompted networks to go to tape delay for major live events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Bowl Halftime Show | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...always felt politics would be just a chapter of my life, not my life," Bush told me. He may be content to leave his legacy to history, but if Hoover, Carter and his father are any guides, using his platform to do great and lasting good for a cause he cares about may do as much for his image as any future historian with a polishing cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Second Act for George W. Bush? | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...form of more spending anyway. Meanwhile, he indicated that he was not inclined to permit Democrats in Congress to look for ways to prosecute outgoing Bush officials over their conduct on the war or their authorization of torture. And Obama, in contrast to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is content to let the Bush tax cuts of 2001 expire in 2010 rather than repeal them. That is not a fight he needs now, even if it makes good economic sense to roll them back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Transition, Obama Comes Up Aces | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

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