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“ Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward. They have no identities. They are probes. ”

“ Part of why I like the bay area is because so many people there are in tech that it’s the center of all conversation. Even a few years ago San Francisco didn’t feel like part of the party. Somehow it stole the show. ”

“ What if we in media are not in the content business? Oh, yes, we will produce content; that’s what we do. But perhaps our greatest value is not in what we produce but in what it produces: signals about people’s interests, about authority, about topics and trends. ”

“ she’s adamant XOJane will stand out in a sea of sameness, a goal that hasn’t changed since her magazine days, really. “The idea was that I want to be completely open with the readers and them be open with me,” she said. ”

“ The site is built for such engagement. It is part of an unusual partnership between Pratt and Say Media, an upstart digital media company that grew out of ad network Videoegg. The Say bet is that it can build a new-style media company based on authentic voices like Pratt’s that are built for the type of real-time feedback that’s a hallmark of the Facebook era. “We’re trying to take a write-read model to an inspire-connect one,” said Troy Young, CEO of Say Media. “Building community around it is a key objective of ours. ”

“ Although baad (also known as baadi) is illegal under Afghan and, most religious scholars say, Islamic law, the taking of girls as payment for misdeeds committed by their elders still appears to be flourishing. Shakila, because one of her uncles had run away with the wife of a district strongman, was taken and held for about a year. It was the district leader, furious at the dishonor that had been done to him, who sent his men to abduct her. ”