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Cody Brown

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Cody Brown's personal blog at codybrown.name covers culture and web. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “A Public Can Talk To Itself: Why The Future of News is Actually Pretty Clear”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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7HN people?
2009–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on Snowfallgate and a startup's "we made a replica in an hour" pitch. The one comment argues that copying an ad is trivial compared with planning it. No comment judges 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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Public Can Talk To Itself: Why The Future of News is Actually Pretty Clear
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-10-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. giveitago · 2013-05-24
    The thing that confuses me more than anything is that the original pitch is so strange - "we made a replica in an hour!". OK. If you showed me an advertising poster you really liked, I could fire up Illustrator and give you a decent replica in a couple of hours. Does that mean you should hire me as your new ad agency? Of course not. The actual act of piecing together a creative is tiny compared to planning it. Anyon…

    Comment linking /timeline/

    on “Snowfallgate and Startups”
  2. shadowsun7 · 2010-04-16

    Submitted A Public Can Talk To Itself: Why The Future of News is Actually Pretty Clear as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  3. libbybrittain · 2013-03-04

    Submitted An Unsolicited Redesign of Time.com as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  4. kateray · 2013-09-24

    Submitted How To Make Native Advertisements Native as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. alexjmann · 2009-08-07

    Submitted Cody Brown - MySpace is to Facebook as Twitter is to ______ as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  6. brkumar · 2009-10-27

    Submitted Public Can Talk To Itself: Why The Future of News is Actually Pretty Clear as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. fredBuddemeyer · 2009-08-07

    Submitted Twitter second act = myspace as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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