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John Gruber, Joe Wilcox, and why comments are anti-web

June 16, 2010

Myself and John Gruber have had plenty of disagreements. John and I have debated the reasons for the relative lack of malware on the Mac. I’ve tweaked his tail over his habit of excoriating those who make predictions and get it wrong, and over some inconsistency in the way he views positive and negative figures [...]

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Dave Winer’s sub-text

June 14, 2010

Dave Winer’s been experimenting with a feature he calls “Sub-text”, which lets you get more depth from a story while still being able to skim-read it. The idea is simple: You can embed a piece of sub-text underneath a paragraph, which you can expand or contract at will. The basic idea is that you should [...]

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Dave Winer rewrites the history of the PC

April 7, 2010

From Dave Winer’s iPad review: “IBM didn’t try to turn the world upside-down with the PC in 1981, however, in 1984, they did, with the PC jr, and failed.” This is actually almost the inverse of the truth. Don Estridge, who headed up the IBM PC project, turned the way that IBM worked on its [...]

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