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Open Letter to Twitter, Ev, Biz, followers, unfollowed and followed alike

by Karoli on June 17, 2011 · 17 comments

Dear Twitter, Ev, Biz, Twitter followers and Twitter followed: It’s time to grapple with identity and behavior in communities in a realistic way. It’s wonderful to stand up and claim to love the first amendment and set extremely loose community standards. As an ideal, it’s laudable. As reality, it demands your attention and the attention [...]

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Sorry Quora, Scoble’s just not that into you anymore

by Karoli on February 2, 2011 · 0 comments

After I wrote my post about identity and reputation, Robert Scoble discovered the downside to Quora. Turns out I was totally wrong. It’s a horrid service for blogging, where you want to put some personality into answers. It’s just fine for a QA site, but we already have lots of those and, in fact, the [...]

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