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The Great Blogfather (Was Slightly Goofy)
Every once and a while it’s worth remember that social media had to be invented. Matt Haughey, MetaFilter founder, “… had to code all the software so he could “blog” in the first place.” Haughey:
And then I made comments. I’d only seen one other site with comments, so I sort of had to invent how blog comments work. I just thought those four or five authors might want to talk to each other. I thought long and hard about how the comments were going to look and be displayed. I always wanted names at the bottom, so that you didn’t prejudice what someone was going to say. I noticed that early systems like [tech blog] Slashdot just put, “Bob says this,” and you’d go, “Fuck Bob—he’s that libertarian psycho! I don’t want to hear a word he says!” So I put them at the bottom so you can be gently surprised.
These Internet traditions that we have that seem so old and so ancient are so new and so man made. Link via Mike Monteiro.
“ As a service grows in popularity, alpha users outlive their usefulness. The core users that helped build a service by word-of-mouth often find themselves dwarfed in numbers by people with very different needs.”
— Andy Baio
Friending & Teaching
Ari discusses his recent struggles with teaching and social media.
“ Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender. Our industry abounds in people for whom social interaction has always been more of a puzzle to be reverse-engineered than a good time to be had, and the result is these vaguely Martian protocols.”
— Maciej Cegłowski on the Social Graph
“ I take for granted often how fleeting these services are. Whether they go out of business, get acquired, or simply change their feature set, any service you trust to hold your data is possibly temporary. The only real way to secure future access to your important moments is to keep them yourself, or at least back them up in a way you’ll be able to continue accessing.”
— Garrett Murray on switching away from Gowalla
Facebook is Scary
Facebook is scaring Dave Winer and Brent Simmons.
Facebook has always scared me.
Sharing should be an intentional act. I don’t want to be tracked. I question the taste and judgement of those of you who let yourselves be tracked by Facebook. Wake up sheeple.
Nik Cubrilovic is wrong. It’s easy to log out of Facebook. Delete your account, nuke your cookies. Even Better Method: never start with Facebook.
On Social Media Scoreboards
James Duncan Davidson nails it: sharing widgets are “dorktastic.”
Astrotweeting
So that’s a thing now.
