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Danny Sullivan
Personal blog · daggle.comwebwriting
Danny Sullivan's personal blog at daggle.com covers web and writing. Since 2009, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on Mac multi-monitor setups, Wikipedia, Google, and New York Times subscription pricing, usually as references in comment threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal site of Danny Sullivan, former journalist.
Most-linked posts?
- /macbook-pro-multimonitor-4-monitors-at-once-15772 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-20
- The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-24
What Hacker News says?
http://daggle.com/closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853 doesn't work in Opera web browser.
Comment linking /closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853
on “The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia”Submitted The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia as a story · 427 points
HN discussionThat's already been possible for a few years - http://daggle.com/macbook-pro-multimonitor-4-monitors-at-onc...
Comment linking /macbook-pro-multimonitor-4-monitors-at-once-1577
on “Thunderbolt”Submitted Dear Rupert Murdoch: Let’s Talk Piracy & “The Simpsons” as a story · 95 points
HN discussion> I’d love to have three monitors, but Macs support only two. You can drive three monitors from a Mac Pro: http://blog.acceleroto.com/2010/08/28/buying-and-setting-up-... And here's a Macbook Pro driving 4 screens: http://daggle.com/macbook-pro-multimonitor-4-monitors-at-onc...
Comment linking /macbook-pro-multimonitor-4-monitors-at-once-1577
on “The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington”Submitted Gmail Ran out of space as a story · 49 points
HN discussionOr trying to squeeze more money out of a smaller readerbase? http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/03/newsonomics-the-collapse-of... 1 cent in 1913 => 24 cents today http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ I'm not sure how much a single issue costs today, but the cheapest you can get NYT for is 75 cents a day: http://daggle.com/new-york-times-subscription-3480
Comment linking /new-york-times-subscription-3480
on “Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months (1911)”Submitted No, Facebook, Your “Extraordinary Gift” Did Not Create The Personalized Web as a story · 33 points
HN discussionI had to stop at the 'hate' for cached pages. He doesn't really expand on it at the linked article, either: http://daggle.com/search-engines-permissions-moving-forward-... In fact, he does not put forth any argument at all. There is talk of the fact that it was indeed ruled 'fair use', and he essentially just disagrees and considers it evil, and expects that to have some weight. I fundamentally disagree: it is fair…
Comment linking /search-engines-permissions-moving-forward-in-copyright-battles-229
on “25 Things I Hate About Google”Submitted How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit as a story · 15 points
HN discussionIf you wanted to learn about SEO then you could always jump in the deep end and setup a small website or blog with a dot.com domain name with some original content around a niche (topic) something small that you know a lot about and try play the Google/bing/yahoo(?) game and aim to get your site ranked well. It will take a while especially with a new 'virgin' site. The best place to start would be google webmaster T…
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on “Ask HN: How to get into SEO consulting? ”Submitted Danny Sullivan: How Link Spammers Killed My Wife’s Web Site as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Lost My Hacker News Name as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Facebook Connect Freaks Me Out as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Open Letter To Jeff Bezos On Terminating The Amazon Affiliate Program in CA as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google's Love For Newspapers & How Little They Appreciate It as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Glad Encyclopedia Britannica Is Alive – Now If I Could Only Find It On Google as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted IPhone 4S: Even Unlocked, You Won't Be Network Swapping This Phone as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear WSJ: To Avoid Google Disease, Please Put A Condom On Your Content as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Add Twitter To Google Wave as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do Newspapers Owe Google “Fair Share” Fees For Researching Stories? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Glass & The Men’s Bathroom Urinals as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enough With The Slideshow Pollution Huffington Post as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons & Thoughts On My 5 Year Anniversary Of Starting A New Business as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Better Letter To New York Times Readers About Digital Subscriptions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted IPhone Terms & Conditions: 3 Times As Long As The US Constitution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ITunes Updates Not Too Big, Says Steve Jobs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Search Engines, Aggregators & Blogs Use News Content as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Link Spammers Killed My Wife’s Web Site as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the AP Fails to Get Search as a story · 1 points
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