greenpaint

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by greenpaint 15y ago
I should perhaps have left out the subheading the New Yorker gave the piece, because it does Gladwell's argument a disservice. His point was that the kind of networks that social media makes easy do not always translate well to the organisa
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by greenpaint 15y ago
Seems appropriate here to bring back Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker piece from October 2010, "Small Change: why the revolution will not be tweeted": http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_...
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by greenpaint 15y ago
I don't think the negative reviewer fully understands how Twitter works. In the thread you link to he says that he didn't delete the tweet, and that they "disappear after a certain number of days". They don't. Here's the tweet you're referr
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Ask HN: How best to make use of Amazon Web Services free usage tier?
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by greenpaint 15y ago
Agreed ... and even without inaccuracies, such stories typically get framed with the service as the problem. In the UK a few years ago there was a big story about a teenager who held a party while her parents were away. She advertised it on
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by greenpaint 15y ago
You might want to take a look too at coworking.info, which runs a directory[1] and allows people to add spaces or register their interest for one. I've never used it so I can't testify to how easy it is to use, or whether it could be improv
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by greenpaint 15y ago
If you can't get the user-agent hack to work, or don't have the time or means, the gist of the article is this: spectacular Web successes such as Amazon, Google or Facebook are the exception not the rule, and lead talented people to chase r