Danah Boyd has an excellent post on why efficiency and reliability are not necessarily good things in a social networking application: Social technologies that make things more efficient reduce the cost of action. Yet, that cost is often an important signal. We want communication to cost something because that cost signals that we value the [...]
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Simplifying life and creating a zone of silence
Posted: 26 December 2007 in Solitude, Silence, Serenity, StillnessTags: linkedin, Pajama Entrepreneur, silence
Until today, I maintained two blogs, this and Pajama Entrepreneur. I decided to merge Pajama Entrepreneur, my other blog about entrepreneurs and technology, into this blog. Why? I have no time to maintain two blogs. It means updating two different sites every time WordPress updates its software. That also means updating all the plugins. Too [...]