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Archive for February 2010

links for 2010-02-23

Does Amazon enable comment spam? Short answer: Yes. Every community successful platform is a potential spam vector, but it's clear…

links for 2010-02-22

Life Before Google (tags: funny)

links for 2010-02-17

Russian Literary Theory and The Way Twitter Is Broken A very insightful thought from Alexis Madrigal. (tags: community twitter)

links for 2010-02-12

Fugitivus: Fuck you, Google Use cases like this are why thoughtful community design is so important. (tags: google community design…

links for 2010-02-11

Variety-show reading series Writers With Drinks Hey, neat! I'm in the Chronicle. (tags: powazek sanfrancisco) WARNING: Google Buzz Has A…

links for 2010-02-10

Gizmodo's Comment System: How It Works and Why It's Better Gawker's comment system has some really smart touches. (tags: community…

links for 2010-02-09

Glitch This is going to be huge. (tags: games glitch tinyspeck) Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up Wow.…

Three Events, Three Hats

In my continuing refusal to decide what I want to be when I grow up, I’ve got three events coming…

links for 2010-02-07

A Conversation with Paul Ford, Web Editor of Harper's Magazine Hilarious interview about how Harper's deals with paywall issues. (tags:…

links for 2010-02-06

Andy Ihnatko: Analog IMDB "Even today, electronic distribution of books is mostly like an awkward office party that everybody shows…


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Hi, I’m Derek. I live in San Francisco. I’m the cofounder of Fertile Medium and editor of Fray. I sometimes post things to Flickr and Twitter. My dog’s name is Bug. More.







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