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@mapkyca *slowly groans until all air has been vanquished and limp body sits in a pile, deflated*
@jf That sounds excellent. I miss the smell of Oxford, where the scent of the old books under the streets wafts up through the drains.
@derek5coms Exactly. For everyone else, boils down to: where do revenue and investment come from?
@derek5coms It's all about the value chain. Open software is often less polished because it's been built with far fewer resources.
@navybook @derek5coms There are 2 kinds of open APIs: standards-based & proprietary (their own design). News orgs tend to build the latter.
@derek5coms @navybook That reads as being cost-orientated too. Makes sense for infrastructure; much less so for end-user products.
@benhuh "How I gave up getting out of bed." Thinkpiece. Go!
@derek5coms I think you're completely right: the main advantage is "free as in beer". I'm also learning that people trust it *less*.
@derek5coms @navybook Part of a larger (selfish) exploration of how libre software can be self-sustainable and support a growing company.
@derek5coms @navybook I believe in software freedom. I don't believe that most users know or care what it is. That's what I'm testing.
@mapkyca @kevinmarks Also: I'm checking on what peoples' answers are now, not after it's been explained to them.
@mapkyca @kevinmarks This was unscientific - but the Fb answers were more instructive than Twitter for me. I'm planning on a larger survey.
"Each taste evokes a different memory," said the doctor. I tried a green one: school. Red: mum. Blue: gleaming, snarling teeth.. #storyshop
Scoring how successful you are based on how much time you spend on a social network is a completely unproblematic idea.
My LinkedIn SSI score is in the top 5% for my industry. Probably because I've started cross-posting there from Known more often.
A great example of how thoughtless design can have real social effects (and highlight biases): http://m.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/bart-riders-racially-profile-via-smartphone-app/Content?oid=4443...
The Internet: "We need to be ready to smash it apart and make something new and better." http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/05/the-dream-of-internet-freedom-is-dying/
Stringr met their customers where they were at - literally. And that's what you need to do. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-we-moved-our-company-from-sf-nyc-brian-mcneill
Important crowdfunded infrastructure. http://megagogo.co/
Non-tech friends: Do you know what open source software is? What are its benefits? Do you trust it?
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