Episode 284: The Digital Revolution Is a Local NYC Story ...

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This episode is 40 minutes long.

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This episode was published on June 25, 2023.

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Ben Smith, the author of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral, talks with Azi Paybarah about Silicon Alley, the internet of the early 2000s, and why local politics is less scalable than it used to be.

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