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Your edit does not make my edit

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wanted to commiserate with Mark Pilgrim. It must feel that he’s being bombarded right about now because of recent edit watch activities. I feel sympathy for Mark, but I still don’t agree with blindly tracking other people’s edits. Not for punitive reasons. However, having said this, I see no harm […]

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Emailing a weblogger

There are few things more irritating then to always get your spam email, but to not get other email you’re expecting; you don’t know if there’s something wrong with your email system, the other person’s email system, or they’re just too busy to respond. My email program put an email from one person I had […]

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Give peace a chance

In the last few weeks, there’s been a great deal of hostility in some of the weblogging neighborhoods. Other discussions have become heated, but most of those have been about politics and the (what was then) upcoming war in Iraq. (It seems more fitting – if you’re going to get hostile, do it over something […]

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I remember Usenet

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A couple of items of gossip. It seems that AOL is unleashing its folks on weblogging. According to Jeff Jarvis: Yesterday, I was one of a privileged council of blogging elders – Meg Hourihan, Nick Denton, Anil Dash, Clay Shirky – invited to see AOL’s new blogging tools, which will be […]

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Out

I have other things I have to focus on now. Now that the co-op server is working well on its own, I’m going to take my long overdue break. Back before end of summer I hope.