Academics are not publishing their most valued thoughts about new media–the ones for which they hope to obtain tenure or promotion–in new media.

Jay Bolter (Writing Space, second edition, 111)

There’s something about this medium that convinces us that our merest flights of fancy, our wispiest free-floating musings, are Revealed Truths, outtakes from Thus Spake Zarathustra. . . . the chattering class’s presumption that it must have something, anything to say about everything? (Joan Didion famously said that she left New York because she didn’t have an opinion about everything.)

Mark Dery blog (September 27, 2005)

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Jay Bolter is an American new media specialist who has published Remediation: Understanding New Media (1999) . Mark Dery (born 1959) is an American author, lecturer and cultural critic who authored one of my favorite quotes on culture.