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Schachtman: Virtual Baseball Cards

Baseball cards have basically turned into precious metals, according to Noah Schachtman. Now Topps will just lock them in a vault, and people can trade them online in an eBay style market.

Hunch. For this online community, a segment has devoted itself to impartially reporting on transactions, trends, and troubles. In short a free press probably emerged.

Hypothesis, any collection of media artifacts can cohere a community in which a free press will/must emerge.

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