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  • The end of an era

    The first time I heard about Slashdot, it was a wonderful place. The ‘news for nerds’ was high-impact and usually well before any other sites. I spent most of the summer of 2003 moderating comments, I even have a few 5′s. No more. As of today, slashdot is off my list of rss feeds. The [...]

  • Nanoblogging now.

    The hook that got me into really using Twitter was reading celebrity twitters, specifically Robert Scoble. It’s a new level of knowledge to be able to get constant updates from thought-leaders with an understanding that there is an informality associated with tweets that does not arise in more fully-thought-out blog posts. I have since moved [...]

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