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5 Things We Forget About The Web

Started by sbspalding · 11 months ago

We spend most of our lives forgetting. Mostly it’s little things — our keys, our appointments, where we parked the car. When you look at any particular lost moment in perspective, it’s not that important. Take them in aggregate, however, and you begin to understand the web.

Forgetting is the reason why so many of the [...]




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  • Anne

    11 months ago

    Hey, awesome article! Congrats.
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  • Svetlana Gladkova

    11 months ago

    Incredible post Steve! I can't help but feel myself that we all are just playing in a small sandbox no one but us cares about at all. This is why I think FriendFeed was ridiculous when it only contained conversations about FF itself and how it improved conversations.

    And this is very true, hopefully we will learn to find really worthy services to talk about (services that change people's lives, like Kiva, for example) instead of just discussing constantly a bitchmeme of the day.
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  • bbluesman

    11 months ago

    Good post Steve. many good points. Funny how many People here would scoff at People Magazine or the Enquirer,but what do they replace that with. Just proves web is no cure for trivia.
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  • Matik72

    11 months ago

    Wow. Excellent post that I would never have found without FF.
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  • Anthony Citrano

    11 months ago

    Great post. I've been noticing this social media navel-gazing a lot lately, and thinking about how absurd it is. Enjoyed your perspective...
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  • Mark Dykeman

    11 months ago

    You're an awesome painter, man, only you use words and images.
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