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The epicenter of delicious.

Thursday, 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).

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PG on startups (again).

Thursday, 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Paul Graham, in the middle of Hiring is Obsolete, casually offers a great little analogy he calls “The Open Cage”: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.

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