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Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)

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What if a little site you love doesn't have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening.
Estimated reading time: 3 min

III What, then, is to be done?

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In real life, all relationships fade naturally if you don't maintain them, but right now social networks preserve ties in amber until we explicitly break them.
Estimated reading time: 13 min

Persuading David Simon

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It is in the nature of computer systems to remember things indefinitely, but there's nothing difficult about programming machines to forget. It just requires laws to do it. We can't treat it as a technical problem. And to get the laws passed, we need to politicize the issue. Still, these barricades are going to seem awfully lonely if we can't even get David Simon up there with us. The man should be a natural ally, and the fact that he sounds so exasperated troubles me. The fact that he seems resigned to a future of total information retention troubles me.
Estimated reading time: 12 min

Recent Bounciness And When It Will Stop (Pinboard Blog)

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Unfortunately, in boom times like these serious sysadmins are worth their weight in gold, and sysadmins tend not to be light people.
Estimated reading time: 4 min

III What, then, is to be done?

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love free software and could not have built my site without it. But free web services are not like free software. If your free software project suddenly gets popular, you gain resources: testers, developers and people willing to pitch in. If your free website takes off, you lose resources.
Estimated reading time: 21 min