“Christopher Alexander made a great diagram, a spectrum of privacy: street to sidewalk to porch to living room to bedroom. I think for many of us Twitter started as the porch—our space, our friends, with the occassional neighborhood passer-by. As the service grew and we gained follwers, we slid across the spectrum of privacy into the street.”

We no longer have ideas powerful enough to organize the world. Yesterday’s “isms” are vanishing. And in their place is left a vacuum.

För att råda bot på problemet föreslår Svenskar i världen en radikal lösning: Inför en särskild valkrets för utlandssvenskarna.

Building the web on top of advertising was a mistake. “If we want to build a web that’s really global, we need to rethink online payment systems.”

From Cracked

“People want to be *in* public, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they want to *be* public. There’s a huge difference between the two. As a result of the destabilization of social spaces, what’s shocking is how frequently teens have shifted from trying to restrict access to content to trying to restrict access to meaning.”

Really good look at how Suzuki prepares for a game, hitter-by-hitter, count-by-count.