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Bill Gates's new website: The Gates Notes

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Re: Bill Gates's new website: The Gates Notes

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Post by brown9-2 »

dantheman wrote: post #21
Alex3917 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that Bill Gates only reads books that reinforce his existing beliefs. That's why he's so pro-KIPP, because he doesn't have any interest in authors like John Taylor Gatto. (Or at least this is what I heard from someone who had lunch with him recently.)

KIPP? Also, I'ma huge fan of the Underground History of American Education ( http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/ )

I'm not familiar with it but there is an article on his site about it: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Learning/article.aspx?ID=29

Re: Bill Gates's new website: The Gates Notes

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Post by retro »

rudin wrote: post #25

First twitter and now a website? Looking over the content on the site I was depressed by all the philanthropy and environmentalism. Not that these aren't good things but I think Bill has been so successful at building software and corporations that his time would be better used teaching people these things. Imagine the articles and insight we could get if he would convert into someone like Paul Graham.

As much as I'd like his feedback on my Twitter clone, I'd rather see him continue to work on extreme poverty.

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Post by thwarted »

pierrefar wrote: post #2

This is doing the rounds on the net too: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/robots.txt It doesn't mention Bing. Amusing, and useless.

It's a cut and paste from some sample file, so this doesn't indicate anything much.

google search for the text in the comments ( http://tinyurl.com/ygtuanh ) has 49 hits, there would be more if I had not joined the lines together, I'm sure.

Re: Bill Gates's new website: The Gates Notes

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

neurotech1 wrote: post #20
javery wrote: post #3

Why am I not surprised that it is using both WebForms and Silverlight... I see that big chunk of viewstate there Bill.

I'm viewing in Chrome 3.0 and haven't experienced any problems. I do not have silverlight installed at all. Wouldn't that be ironic - If a large number of visitors were using Firefox, Safari & Chrome?

I'd expect most visitors to be [so-called] technorati and hence less IE than other browsers.

Re: Bill Gates's new website: The Gates Notes

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Post by tibbon »

mcav wrote: post #26

Do you think he's actually writing/doing all this himself? (vs. having an intern or something like that be his social media face)

I'm sure he's got some other people doing stuff on the site (code, server, etc), but I'm likely to believe that this is indeed him writing the content. Maybe he's got someone proofing it, but Bill like most of us probably find something nice about writing out your thoughts and interacting with people through a blog.

Re: Bill Gates's new website: The Gates Notes

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Post by opoloqo »

dnewcome wrote: post #5

I think that Bill can do a world of good by sharing his thoughts via a blog like this. Assuming he is candid and fosters real communication, that is. Sections like 'What I'm thinking about/what I'm learning' is exactly the right attitude.

would be interesting. too bad the comments are turned off.
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