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A decade earlier, O’Reilly had redefined “freedom” as the freedom of developers to do as they wished; now it was all about recasting “openness” in government in purely economic and innovation-friendly terms while downplaying its political connotations.
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The Internet is a big fan of the worst-possible-thing. Many people thought Twitter was the worst possible way for people to communicate … One recipe for Internet success seems to be this: Start at the bottom, at the most awful, ridiculous, essential idea, and own it.
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Paul Ford
Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven - Businessweek
(via fred-wilson)This is the big thing that the app kids seem to be forgetting these days. Everything that’s “won evolution” on the network has started from the bottom. The Internet is a fan of Antifragile.
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I have forsaken you!
After an absurdly long hiatus, I’m back on Tumblr. This of course means I no longer follow the cool kids.
Who should I be following these days?
