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Trivial Posts #10: Superstar Writers, Racebent Hermione, And Long-Form Is Long

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Right, that’s the Eurovision Song Contest over, so let’s get back to some triviality online and what has caught my eye online as I get over my time in Vienna? Don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list so you always get your Trivial Posts before they are posted online. Superstars Still Need Infrastructure I’ve been writing online for many years,sometimes for small sites, sometimes for the new-media companies, and sometimes for the reinvented old-school media names (such as my current regular writing over on Forbes). Reading Bob Lefsetz’ article on the purchase of new-media tech reporting site ReCode (founded by industry veterans Kara

Hermione Granger and the Deathly Hallows

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In Hermione, Joanne Rowling undermines all of the clichés that we have come to expect in our mythic heroes. It’s easy to imagine Hermione’s origin story as some warmed-over Star Wars claptrap, with tragically missing parents and unsatisfying parental substitutes and a realization that she belongs to a hidden order, with wondrous (and unsettlingly genetic) gifts. But, no: Hermione’s normal parents are her normal parents. She just so happens to be gifted. Being special, Rowling tells us, isn’t about where you come from; it’s about what you can do, if you put your mind to it. Alternative universes: providing satire