The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)

The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)

Hooray for comparing FB to AOL + Prodigy in the 90s. Also for RDF jokes. “You might almost think that the whole scheme had been cooked up by a bunch of hyperintelligent but hopelessly socially naive people, and you would not be wrong. Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender. Our industry abounds in people for whom social interaction has always been more of a puzzle to be reverse-engineered than a good time to be had, and the result is these vaguely Martian protocols.”

Wouldnt It Be Cool if Shakespeare Wasnt Shakespeare? – NYTimes.com

Wouldnt It Be Cool if Shakespeare Wasnt Shakespeare? – NYTimes.com

“First they came for the Kennedy scholars, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Kennedy scholar. Then they came for Opus Dei, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Catholic scholar. Now they have come for me. “