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May 12th, 2005
Joshua Schachter has set up a proper weblog for his social bookmarking site, del.icio.us (of which I am one of but thousands of users, and which inspired the tags you see over on the left).
dsandler.org
I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
Archive for May 12th, 2005
PG on startups (again).
May 12th, 2005
Paul Graham, in the middle of Hiring is Obsolete, casually offers a great little analogy he calls “The Open Cage”:
Have you ever noticed that when animals are let out of cages, they
don’t always realize at first that the door’s open? Often they
have to be poked with a stick to get them out. Something similar
happened with blogs. People could have been publishing online in
1995, and yet blogging has only really taken off in the last couple
years. In 1995 we thought only professional writers were entitled
to publish their ideas, and that anyone else who did was a crank.
Now publishing online is becoming so popular that everyone wants
to do it, even print journalists. But blogging has not taken off
recently because of any technical innovation; it just took eight
years for everyone to realize the cage was open.