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Finding a groove

By gavin | Published: August 20, 2008
I had some issues early on with Twitter . That was from 2006. My first “official” twittering was from May 2008. Initially, my issues with Twitter were the “me to you” nature of it. And like I mentioned in the 2006 post, I had plenty of ways of doing that already. But its finally [...]
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Crocodile guilt

By gavin | Published: November 12, 2007
An interesting quote from Mark Bernstein about why conferences aren’t such fun places these days: Still more fundamentally, the mass of guilt that weighs upon the field deadens our conferences. That guilt arises from the divergence of what we like from what we think we should like. We enjoy exciting new systems that do what nothing [...]
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Remembering how to think

By gavin | Published: May 17, 2006
As an experiment, I decided to kill my aggregator. The idea was to take the few handfuls of feeds I really enjoy and/or depend on, put them back in my browser and use Firefox’s nice “Open In Tabs” feature. Within a week I was hooked on my new method and a little angry. Turns out [...]
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