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Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
by Cory Doctorow

Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
by Cory Doctorow

Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
by Cory Doctorow

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Facebook's Faceplant

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(Originally published as "How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook," in InformationWeek, November 26, 2007)

on fb trying to be more of a platform (and an ad platform at that), which is obvs bad for the internet. also about why he thinks FB will cease to be "cool" eventually as more and more people join (including people you don't want to be friends with). it's now a decade later and fb is still pretty damn big so i guess this essay didn't age that well, but it's not that bad

Doctorow, C. (2008). Facebook's Faceplant. In Doctorow, C. Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future. Tachyon Publications, pp. 148-151

Metcalfe's Law (en)

the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system

149

Sure, networks generally follow Metcalfe's Law: "the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system."

—p.149 by Cory Doctorow
notable
7 years, 5 months ago

Sure, networks generally follow Metcalfe's Law: "the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system."

—p.149 by Cory Doctorow
notable
7 years, 5 months ago

inveigle (en)

(verb) to win over by wiles; entice / (verb) to acquire by ingenuity or flattery; wangle

150

The teacher inveigles her friends to clean up their profiles, and all is well again until her boss, the school principal, signs up to the service and demands to be added to her friends list.

—p.150 by Cory Doctorow
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7 years, 5 months ago

The teacher inveigles her friends to clean up their profiles, and all is well again until her boss, the school principal, signs up to the service and demands to be added to her friends list.

—p.150 by Cory Doctorow
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7 years, 5 months ago