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A pale moon’s shadow

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jeneane writes about lazy aggregator people, and the loss of community because of RSS aggregators. Her solution is for everyone to bring back the blogroll. Ralph agrees, stating that feed aggregators reduce every site to a dull grey lowest common denominator…. Both talk about the disruption in conversation that reading feeds in aggregators […]

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Connecting Diversity

Ends

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Kevin Marks: I’ve said before that the net is large, and contains multitudes, and thus what you find in it is what you look for. Like Caliban, raging at your reflection is counterproductive. Dave Rogers finds hierarchies. David Weinberger finds collaborators. Shelley Powers finds, er, something that she disapproves of. Yup, that’s the […]

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Proofs

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Several people have been involved in a discussion around the question: do links subvert hierarchies. It started with Doc Searls (Linkers page). Then Dave Rogers comments (Linkers page), kicking off the following flurry of cross-weblog linking: Original Mike Warot (Linkers Page) Wirearchy (Linkers Page) David Weinberger (Linkers Page) Sean Coon (Linkers Page) Mark Bernstein (Linkers Page) Forthcoming (Linkers Page) Indefinite […]

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Taken

“Obviously, your not from my south because down here we hate gay people and we hate your beliefs about this subject Shelley! Oh and I don’t have sex with my horse and obviously your bible isn’t baptist!” I laughed when I read this, thinking to myself, “You can’t pay someone to write words such as […]

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My digitalized tunes

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m still importing my music CDs into my iTunes. I am now up to 1358 songs, and currently importing the Beatles White Album. Handling CDs over an extended period, I’ve noticed how the CD packaging and CDs, themselves, have changed over time. Some of my older CDs, such as White […]