Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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inveigle

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 Facebook's Faceplant (148) by Cory Doctorow
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Metcalfe's Law

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 Facebook's Faceplant (148) by Cory Doctorow
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the permission that can never be had

[...] Perhaps the point is to titillate us with
the delicious irony of celebrating copyright infringement while
simultaneously taking the view that even the NO
PHOTOGRAPHY sign is a form of property, not to be reproduced
without the permission that can never be had.

—p.145 Warhol is Turning in His Grave (144) by Cory Doctorow
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