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Message to Web Thingy Developers: I am a lazy bastard

Friday, June 27th, 2008

This post is dedicated to the hard working developers behind whoisi.com, profilactic.com, FriendFeed.com (to whom I give special thanks for providing distractions for me daily), and all the other social aggregators out there. I do this out of love. Dave Winer just made a post about whoisi.com, singing its praises and ...

Anti-social networking (and a question about my iPhone)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Yesterday, I denied a LinkedIn request. The day before that, I asked my childhood "boyfriend" who he was before I approved his Facebook friend request. I deny MySpace friend requests regularly. I am a practitioner of anti-social networking. Online hermit? Maybe. My friends/following/contacts lists are full of people I either went ...