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1 year ago

in Books: The next file-sharing frontier on Mathew's comments
Amongst others, Rapidshare, Icefile and Depositfile already contain masses of copied books. Though limited to the kind of books bought by geeks (i.e. self-improvement and technology) the concept is definitely already there.

1 year ago

in 2008/03/27/chris-pirillo-gnomepal-drupal/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
I agree that simplicity and power are tradeoffs within the system. However, why can't a decent CMS use progressive disclosure? Set defaults for most of the options, and provide a simple wizard functionality for those that can't be default. Then allow more advanced developers to go in and change the options.

The little cabal of people who build Drupal (along with TYPO3) don't seem to see 'ease-of-use' as a goal, and almost wear the complexity of their system as a badge of honour.

1 year ago

in Duncan Riley: Lessons in diplomacy on Mathew's comments
I agree very much with you Matthew. I've noted on TechCrunch a few times that smoe of Duncan's posts seem to carry out a personal vendetta (e.g. anti-US, anti-Google), instead of being rational considered debate.

I read Duncan's original post, Louis's reply, and thought it was all pretty ordinary. Duncan's response is more like that of a troll rather than the professional, respectable debate that is expected of someone in Duncan's position.
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Eric Rice Isn't this the TechCrunch way? Who cares who the CEO is or how many staffers there are, Mike Arrington = TechCrunch and in the prince's chair = Duncan. Doesn't really matter where it's posted, you are the brand.

I think I actually agree with Duncan's points, but I dunno, I'm AMERIKUNH and we like bombing crap and watching fights. Duncan, you're a better American than most of the blogosphere. God bless. His original points are lost because of dropping the cunt-bomb.

Will Gawker please please PLEASE buy TechCrunch already? PLEASE?

1 year ago

in Political and Religious Controversy on Facebook on AllFacebook
Should they delete? No - unless there was some form of incitement to violence that made the group dangerous in some way.

They've set a hard-to-follow precedent for themselves. I guess they hadn't expected it to be so high-profile, and now they lose either way.
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