February 2011
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Tumblr’s Future
Some Suggestions on How to Handle the Transition from Free to “Freemium”
Since my earlier posts on niggles I had with Tumblr, I’ve thought about the topic a lot — specifically, how Tumblr can handle the inevitable transition from a free to a paid/freemium model. (This entire post is based upon the assumption that such a transition is inevitable, which I think is the only logical conclusion to...
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Plaintextism
John Sparks, in his post “The Joy of Text”:
There’s something to be said for the use of plain text files. Text is simple. Text files are easy to read on any computer running any operating system and don’t require any proprietary word processor to interpret. Even more important, text files can be read by humans. Keeping your writings in text makes them digitally immortal.
Moreover, text is...
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Far Beyond the Memory Hole
Or, @EvBogue Saves His Blog to /dev/null
Yesterday, everyone’s favourite messianic, augmented-minimalist-cybernetic-superhuman-yogi Everett Bogue took down his seminal blog Far Beyond the Stars.
Quoth he of this momentous step:
When I wrote The Art of Being Minimalist, the world needed instructions. It needed someone to tell the world, point blank: here’s what happens when you throw out...
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