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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 m…

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/reporti…

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…

I'm thinking of signing up to use Amazon's Web Services. I have created and hosted simple websites (static HTML, Wordpress blogs etc) before on shared hosting plans, but I'd like t…

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 he…

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 tes…

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…