Paul Ford: I don’t really make decisions. Instead, I pick my friends carefully. Then I go where people ask me to go; when no one needs me to go anywhere or do anything I work on longer essays that I’ll publish some day.

Which brings us back to the question: Have we reached peak Facebook? And no, we haven’t. Even if Facebook never adds another user, it will keep growing: It has become a fundamental substrate, a difficult-to-avoid component of any site or app that requires users to register—making it essential to nearly every major web innovation now and in the future. There’s a related question: Is Facebook ever going to be cool again? That’s like asking “Is the phone company cool?” The interface may not be exciting anymore, but the network is very, very cool, in the disruptively awesome way that enormous things are: volcanoes, aircraft carriers, the New Deal.

Instagram succeeded for many good reasons, including its design, its viral qualities, its simplicity, and the fact that its engineers focused so obsessively on making sure that it works all the time. Part of its success, no doubt, is the fact that it was just in the right place, at the right time, with the right, crowd-pleasing mix of features.

‘Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender.’

‘This is a timeline of sexist incidents in geek communities.’

"Let me think about that." In other words: with a glut of information, we're trying to form opinions and take action on it all just as fast as it's coming in, and we're suffering for it.

I want to read this collection of articles someday, but I doubt I will.

What will call these new forms, these non-books, these "texts"? Hmm, that could work.

Indeed. (Just saving for reference.)

Augmented Social Network, explained.

"a compelling and dynamic introduction on Identity 2.0 and how the concept of digital identity is evolving."

Excellent videos!

He contends that users should pay for the bandwidth they consume, and that that would keep the internet neutral.

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