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Published Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:38:03 -0600

Last updated Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:38:16 -0600

Gotta say, I love the sentiment expressed in Eric Stephenson's blog today. Mostly because I've been thinking recently that our current group of industry EICs and other top execs is — with one or two notable exceptions — mostly a pretty low-key bunch. It hasn't always been so, but the echoes of excelsior! have been growing pretty faint in recent times, for better or worse. They do interviews and columns from time to time, but it's gotten relatively rare to see unscripted sparks like this from the upper echelons of the publishers. Can you imagine if twitter had existed during the height of the Mark Alessi / Bill Jemas era? That would have been fun.

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