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• 07-Nov-2023
  We are highly incentivized to speak in code I remember when people would refer to Microsoft as Microsuck in online writing. Often in mailing lists but elsewhere too. It always struck me as a bit weird. It was often a way to express disdain for Microsoft’s conduct as a monopolist (later punished in the courts). These days, I see people refer to their...

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• 12-Dec-2022
  Popehat exits Twitter I have been a fan of Ken White for quite a while. He’s the sort of contrarian thinker who nonetheless is able to actually have convictions about civil liberties. His assessments read as evenhanded to me, which does sometimes make them frustrating to read, but he leavens these views in a way that makes me...

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• 23-Nov-2022
  I’m over on Mastodon For those few of you who also follow my Twitter account you may have noticed a severe drop off in my participation on that site. The overall quality of interaction there, along with the aggressively poor behavior of the owner has been enough of a prompt for me to step away from it to a...

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• 16-Nov-2022
  Predicted. Quote of the Day Running Twitter Isn’t Rocket Science. It’s Harder by Clive Thompson. In the near future, Musk and his engineers may yearn for the days when their hardest job was merely landing reusable rockets. from October 29 of this year

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• 03-Nov-2022
  Twitter went private, then it got weird. I’ve been using twitter since October 2006. That’s not a short amount of time to be using a service. 16 years! It’s deeply weird to return to what was once called “internet time.” Internet time was what we called the era where brand new web pages or services would pop up and get massively popular...

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• 30-Nov-2021
  Why are so many folks compelled by web3? I think this describes it well, by Robin Rendle: The future feels like it’s already owned by Google or Facebook or some other enormous corporate interest, so I can understand that impulse to create something new like web3 because of that. Read the whole thing. I suspect people–particularly younger people–see “just websites” created by individuals...

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• 26-Jun-2020
  Hot Tubbing an Online Community by Caleb John Clark, 1999 Some years ago I read Caleb John Clark’s essay (blog post, really) about online community and it has stuck with me ever since. It’s currently not easily searchable on the web. A shame. I am extracting it from the Internet Archive and placing the text here. “Hot Tubbing an Online Community” Caleb John Clark, January...

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• 20-Oct-2009
  It’s Readers That Matter From Exclusive Interview With Ashok Banker! Where can we find more info about you and your work? From me directly. I follow a one-on-one approach to marketing. That means I wait for a reader or prospective reader to contact me, whether through Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, my blog, etc, and then I interact directly. It’s not...

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