Does Amazon enable comment spam? Short answer: Yes. Every community successful platform is a potential spam vector, but it's clear…
Life Before Google (tags: funny)
Russian Literary Theory and The Way Twitter Is Broken A very insightful thought from Alexis Madrigal. (tags: community twitter)
Fugitivus: Fuck you, Google Use cases like this are why thoughtful community design is so important. (tags: google community design…
Variety-show reading series Writers With Drinks Hey, neat! I'm in the Chronicle. (tags: powazek sanfrancisco) WARNING: Google Buzz Has A…
Gizmodo's Comment System: How It Works and Why It's Better Gawker's comment system has some really smart touches. (tags: community…
Glitch This is going to be huge. (tags: games glitch tinyspeck) Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up Wow.…
In my continuing refusal to decide what I want to be when I grow up, I’ve got three events coming…
A Conversation with Paul Ford, Web Editor of Harper's Magazine Hilarious interview about how Harper's deals with paywall issues. (tags:…
Andy Ihnatko: Analog IMDB "Even today, electronic distribution of books is mostly like an awkward office party that everybody shows…
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