On the efficacy of online flamewars

Excavated from the drafts folder for no particular reason. Isn't it great how, since the Brendan Eich affair, all his online …

The web's original sin, and its possible redemption

Anil Dash made a good point last December , but he also missed something. The rot was there from the beginning. The original arc…

The social graph is...

"...neither social nor a graph..." ...provided you redefine the words "social" and "graph" to mean …

Tree structure and comment threads (a brief observation)

It has been claimed that flat, linear presentation of comments appears to work better for humans than tree-structured comment th…

Email, instant messaging, immediacy, and productivity

Krugman's response to this NY Times trend article on the alleged death of email and triumph of instant messaging reminds me…

On "listserv"

Hypothesis: usage of the word "listserv" to mean "mailing list" generically is a shibboleth for non-technical…