this morning techcruch decided to roundup folks waxing philosophical about the scalability problems with twitter, and decentralizing twitter by creating some new web site or service. and that’s entirely the problem with their thinking.
why their approaches will not work
people are thinking of this as a web problem. twitter is not a web problem. the trouble [...]

Posted on May 5th, 2008 by mike
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ah, the noble jersey barrier. who invented it? tough to say exactly, except to narrow it down to: New Jersey. yes, the much maligned “Garden State” has contributed such a thing of beauty to the world, as an immovable chunk of concrete.

Posted on May 20th, 2007 by mike
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welcome to a new category here at sixowl: inventions. we’ll start with relatively famous ones and delve into the obscure - who invented it? this week: Liquid Paper (”White Out”)
Liquid Paper was originally named “Mistake Out” and was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham, a typist/secretary, in 1951.
(For those of you born after ~1980, Liquid Paper [...]

Posted on May 12th, 2007 by mike
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