ProfessorBlind observation: twitter ’09 = webforums ’03 = AIM/ICQ ’98 = IRC ’90 = listserv ’86 = Usenet ’81 = BBS ’79 — the more things change…
ProfessorBlind …and typically, I resist each change, and only adapt right as the new technology is dying. If trends hold, I just killed twitter.
ProfessorBlind Blind’s Law: A net communication ‘revolution’ every six years, ‘new’ but used the same old way. The New Hotness due in ’12, adopted in ’14
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if I win the lottery, Bradley Schenck will be getting a pile of cash to redesign this site from scratch.
In my head, I sound like Yahtzee (quite a feat, given my inherited U.S.-flat-midwestern-accent.)
where I start my browsing day...
...and one source I trust for reviews, reports, and opinion on manga specifically...
...and where my casual browsing usually ends, past the research for various articles that I have to do each day.
Note: NSFW. Icarus, best described as "the Thinking Man's Porn Manga." Simon does me the undeserved favor of dropping free review copies my way, which I have callously ignored to date. Simon's blog is also a must-read, for a look at the manga industry from a small indy publisher's perspective. Plus, porn.
Twitter, like every other social internet tool introduced before it, is one hell of a productivity killer. This may in fact be a hallmark of the class.
Comment by Matt Blind — 17 January 2010, 00:31 #