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Anne Helmond
Personal blog · annehelmond.nldataweb
Anne Helmond's personal blog at annehelmond.nl covers data and web. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, which uses the linked post "On Using Twitter" as a starting point to discuss McLuhan's "the medium is the message" and Twitter's origin as a microblogging service. The comment does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Historians are taught to be aware of their own biases and attributing value in their research / observations of the past. Having said that, I think it's far more interesting to look at the medium itself. Marshall McLuhan, after all, did say "the medium is the message" or "the medium is the massage". Twitter was first conceived as a micro-blogging service. You simply gave status updates about what was going on in you…
Comment linking /2013/01/19/on-retweet-analysis-and-a-short-history-of-retweets/
on “On Using Twitter”Submitted What does Twitter know about me? My .zip file with 50Mb of data as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Groupon hurts loyal customers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does Twitter know about me? My .zip file with 50Mb of data as a story · 2 points
HN discussion