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Twitter Lists: Categories and Conversations

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Anyone who’s spent any time with me in the past week or two already knows that I’m not a huge fan of Twitter lists, but I’ve come to realize that I’ve (once again) left many people with the impression that I’m more anti- on the topic that I actually am. In this post I’ll cover [...]

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Microsoft marketing: welcome to the social, sort of.

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Update, only a very few hours later: wait until you’ve read the rest of the post before you click through here, but it just gets worse and worse. As Microsoft marketing oopsies go this barely even registers, but it hits a number of interesting points on its path to cringiness so it’s worth a little [...]

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Always and Everywhere

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

One: On Monday morning, Fred Wilson posted a little joke. Louis Gray had noted that a new addition to the Twitter staff appeared as a member of the “twitter team” list on Twitter before any announcement of the hire came out of the company, and Wilson added:  “Hmm. No need to send out that obligatory [...]

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Thoughts on a Sewage-Filled Spam Hose

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Earlier today Josh Stylman pointed out an interesting post by Mark Pilatowski entitled Search and Social: Will the Twitter Firehose Become a Sewage-Filled Spam Hose? While the short answer to that question is “what do you mean will become a sewage-filled spam hose?” I’d like to dig a little deeper than that. It’s well worth [...]

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Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for Contemplation

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Tom Johnson’s Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for Solo String Bass is a fascinating composition. It’s music and text that explore the idea of failure, and well worth the nine minutes you’ll invest in listening. The piece popped into my head because of a conversation I had a couple of days ago. We were talking about [...]

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Site and Service

Friday, October 16th, 2009

[Addition to the original post, pre-publish: by hanging on to this post for a couple of days I'm publishing after Albert Wenger's post and thus missed the opportunity to say "see? I thought of this, too, so I'm astonishingly perceptive." Well, 50% of something-or-other is showing up, so I can't really complain. But this does [...]

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Magic, Technology, Synthesis

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

“We need to not be building the Marauder’s Map and instead be building the Weasley Clock” – Kevin Marks (as reported by Dennis Crowley) To get it out of the way up front, let me just say this: I’ll stipulate to deserving a certain amount of mockery for thinking for so long about a Harry Potter [...]

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Dear Twitter: It’s Not You, It’s Me

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

September 13, 2009: I love Twitter and use it a lot, but I’m tired of developing for the API. It’s not that I don’t think the API team over there do a fantastic job, or that I think the API is bad, it’s a personal thing. It no longer excites me the way it once [...]

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Zune: congratulations and condolences

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Back in the day, I had myself a very nice time watching and writing about the release of Microsoft’s first Zune device: Zune: welcome to the gamble Zune’s CNN Train Wreck Zune: this pretty much sums it up Ceci n’est pas une Zune post Zune: when will the hurting stop? Zune: words fail me After [...]

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Millions of Blogs are Now…

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

A week ago I wrote the following: Either everybody who’s been gushing about rssCloud “making millions of blogs real-time” is missing the point, or I am. I haven’t worked through it all in my head, but if I had to write a totally speculative, one day after release headline right now I’d go with something [...]

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