community moderation
One of my favorite insights on the subject of online community is from Tom Chick: Here is something I’ve never articulated because I thought, perhaps naively, it was understood: The priority for participating on this forum is not the quality of the content. I ultimately don’t care how
blogging
Emrah Diril [http://emrahdiril.com/] recently asked me this via email: > Steve Yegge mentioned in the comments of his last post [http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/05/programmers-view-of-universe-part-3.html] that he gets quite a bit of hate directed his way. > Fake51: you underestimate the ability of people to
blogging
You might read a post on this blog and decide I’m full of crap. That’s fine. I often am full of crap. I encourage you to leave a comment explaining why you feel this way. And, while you’re at it, feel free to point out any errors
social media
As of August 9th, 2006, MySpace has 100 million members. For reference, the population of California is approximately 36 million, and the population of the United States is approximately 300 million. I have a hard time believing that 1 in 3 Americans could conceivably be MySpace users. I’m not
blogging
I’ve avoided the incestuous nature of blogging about blogging until now, but the topic does come up occasionally. Not everyone is a believer in the utility of blogs; I was a skeptic only two years ago, and Michael Brundage went out of his way late last year to point
user experience
Per Steve Krug’s excellent book, Don’t Make Me Think: We all know happy talk when we see it: it’s the introductory text that’s supposed to welcome us to the site and tell us how great it is, or to tell us what we’re about to