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TOC 2012 Keynote To Watch: “Is SEO Killing America?”

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Karl

TOC 2012: Clay Johnson, “Is SEO Killing America?”: Related: Metafilter thread. The Information Diet

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Princess Power

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Karl

Debra Levin Gelman wrote a terrific post about the princess paradox on Wednesday that I’ve been meaning to comment on here. Toys, clothes, media, just about any kind of consumer good marketed for young girls uses ‘the Princess’ as a … Continue reading →

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11 Years of Experience Growing Metafilter

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Karl

Metafilter has been running for over 11 years now and it remains one of the greatest online communities. Matt Haughey’s SXSW talk, “Real World Moderation: Lessons from 11 Years of Community”, was videoed, it’s 40 minutes well spent, covering the … Continue reading →

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The News needs an Anti-Virus (and it’s us)

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Karl

Passing this one along from Dave Winer because the sooner we think of passing along things we dislike on the Web, that only can exist with our attention, as viruses, the sooner we remove their influence. So you *hate* the … Continue reading →

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Recent Space-X on NPR highlights how little we read

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Karl

A story is posted about a private company working to build the largest capacity lifter in service and what do a significant number of commentors fret about? That the government is wasting its money on building it! It is pretty … Continue reading →

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