Networks, Theory, and the Web Archive

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    Audience vs Monetization, which comes first?

    This topic has come up a several different times in many different circles over the last few weeks so I thought I’d make a post about it just to sort of document some of my thoughts on it. I’ve been talking to companies and groups...

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  • Facebook makes me feel like a shitty friend

    Facebook makes me feel like a shitty friend

    Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Facebook and how I use it and with what people. Obviously the recent privacy changes and their new connections have me giving the site a closer look (and have some people taking legal action). Honestly that alone should...

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  • How to turn off Google Buzz

    How to turn off Google Buzz

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  • Buzz and Aardvard and Twitter and Facebook and… Ugh!

    Buzz and Aardvard and Twitter and Facebook and… Ugh!

    /Warning, on this big scale of quality of the written word this piece is much closer to the ‘stream of consciousness rant’ than ‘well though out argument.’ What that means is I will likely jump around a lot and I reserve the right to change...

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  • Spreadshirt is missing the point

    Spreadshirt is missing the point

    Yesterday I announced the launch of R3515T.com which is largely powered by Spreadshirt. In my announcement post about it I explained that I’ve printed and sold t-shirts via different companies for most of my life but only now had print on demand services, like Spreadshirt...

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  • Hackerspaces and thriving on chaos

    Hackerspaces and thriving on chaos

    There’s been some interesting talk recently on the hackerspaces.org list about making some things that have been unofficial more official, specifically interhackerspace relations. This has been met with varying degrees of agreement, ranging from some folks thinking it’s a great idea to others thinking it’s...

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  • Neoteny Singapore Camp 1 – Done!

    Neoteny Singapore Camp 1 – Done!

    The first of hopefully many Neoteny Singapore Camps has come and gone and by every measure I can think of was a huge success. Of course I’m biased because I was one of the organizers, but it was better than I expected it to be...

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  • Some thoughts on Twitters new ReTweet feature

    Some thoughts on Twitters new ReTweet feature

    This morning I woke up to find this on my Twitter homepage: I was immediately psyched. I’ve been a fan of retweets for a while and one of the main reasons I’ve continued to use TweetDeck despite it’s buggyness is how flawless it handles retweets....

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  • More on Twitter Lists

    More on Twitter Lists

    The other day I made some predictions about twitter lists and after a week or so of using them I thought I’d report back at least how I was using them and how that was working for me. It’s taken a few days of use...

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  • Prediction about Twitter Lists

    Prediction about Twitter Lists

    This is a quick prediction, but I think that the introduction of lists will change twitter dramatically allowing people to stop following any and all accounts they want to keep up with in favor of adding those accounts to a specific list. This will help...

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  • Facebook Events to Google Calendar

    Facebook Events to Google Calendar

    I just synced them. You can do the same with these easy steps… In Facebook, go to your EVENTS page. At the top of that page click EXPORT EVENT You’ll get a pop up window with a URL, copy it. In Google Cal, on the...

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  • Blog Advertising is Broken

    Blog Advertising is Broken

    Anyone in the ad-supported-blog business knows sales and revenues are on a downward spiral. Some people would argue this is a sign that advertising isn’t a viable business, but I think it’s not so much a problem with what is being sold, rather how it’s...

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