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==Arts & Letters Daily== {{main|Arts & Letters Daily}} Dutton was best known for the web aggregation site [[Arts & Letters Daily]], which he founded in 1998 and which secured him a place among "the most influential media personalities in the world".<ref>{{Cite magazine| last = Grossman| first = Lev| title = Meet Joe Blog| magazine = Time| date = 13 June 2004| url = http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,650732,00.html| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130204103015/http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,650732,00.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = 4 February 2013}}</ref> The site, described as "the first and foremost aggregator of well-written and well-argued book reviews, essays, and other articles in the realm of ideas",<ref name=eskin>{{cite magazine|date=28 December 2010|title=Denis Dutton|first=Blake|last=Eskin|url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/postscript/2.html#entry-2000000001114450|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130208164024/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/postscript/2.html%23entry-2000000001114450|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 February 2013|magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref> features links to articles across the web about literature, art, science, and politics, for which Dutton wrote pithy teasers.<ref name=margalit-fox /> In recognition of ''Arts & Letters Daily'', [[Steven Pinker]] called Dutton a visionary for recognizing that a website "could be a forum for cutting-edge ideas, not just a way to sell things or entertain the bored".<ref name=woo />
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