Stuff filed as Commentary

Search and receptivity

A short one this morning from Practicalist (ever worth reading) asks, What comes after search? Heck it’s short enough to reproduce in full:
Reading about the epic battle against Google that Microsoft, TimeWarner, and Yahoo continue to lose, I have to wonder if it’s really such a world-beating thing to own search. Right now it is, [...]

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Voice and signal in the age of aggregation

A stray thought.
Standard advice for bloggers starting out: Find your voice and stick to it.
But how many blogs or bloggers - or Twitterers for that matter - could you identify by the text of a single post?
Rarely do I visit individual blogs. What I have is a couple hundred feeds in Google Reader - organized [...]

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Overlap and social media. Farewell 2008.

Haven’t posted much lately, but felt compelled to close out the year with a final something. Which got me thinking about overlap. And then social media. And then overlap again.
We pin such hope and significance to a new year. This is a sort of collective bargain we’ve struck with our calendars. It works for us [...]

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