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Dan York writes Disruptive Conversations, a personal blog at disruptiveconversations.com about web and culture. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2008–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Dan York's blog for posts on how online platforms decline, and one commenter lists a 2009 post among sources for web statistics. Commenters cite or link the posts rather than judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I'll note that despite the Techcrunch headline about Google Handwrite accepting cursive handwriting, it doesn't really do so. In fact, Google's help pages specifically say you should use block printing versus cursive. I tried some cursive and the recognition didn't work all that well. However, the block printing was generally quite accurate. I wrote about some of my views on this at: http://www.disruptiveconversatio…

    Comment linking /2012/07/google-now-lets-you-handwrite-search-queries-on-ipad-iphone-android.html

    on “Google Handwrite”
  2. Submitted As An Author, Why I Truly Hate Ebook DRM as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2023/01/cory-doctoro... "Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of…

    Comment linking /2023/01/cory-doctorow-on-the-enshittification-of-social-platforms.html

    on “Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits”
  4. Submitted CSS3 Generator - A Great Way to Quickly Get CSS3 Code as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-week-in-search-1... Facebook: http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2009/09/usa-today-750... http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics YouTube: http://ksudigg.wetpaint.com/page/YouTube+Statistics Blogs: http://www.alphablogs.net/article/over-14-million-new-blog-p... http://technorati.com/blogging…

    Comment linking /2009/09/usa-today-750-photos-per-second-uploaded-to-facebook.html

    on “Ask HN: Anybody Know Any Real-Time Web Stats?”
  6. Submitted My Problem With Klout Scores: Beyonce Gets a 50 - Without Ever Sending A Tweet as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted At What Point Do We Just Stop Caring About IE6 Visitors? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Wow - Facebook Acquires Instagram as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Today's Squawk Box will discuss "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted The Super Simple Secret To Stopping Online Piracy (Hint: Not SOPA) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Facebook Acquires eBook Maker Push Pop Press - See The TED Video To Understand as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Do You Flip? Cisco Says "No" And Shuts Down Flip Video as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted 2 Very Simple Ways to Backup All Your Del.icio.us Bookmarks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Are Facebook Pages About to Get Notifications? Screenshots of a preview as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Creating "Tweetable Moments": Public Speaking In the Age of Twitter as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted How To Get Notified via SMS When Someone Mentions You And a Keyword On Twitter as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Why I Will Not Be Rushing To Upgrade To Evernote 5 For Mac as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Yet Another Skitch / Evernote Fail - Image Sharing/Uploading No Longer Works as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Would You Buy A .blog Domain Name? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted How To Auto-Update WordPress Custom Themes Using Github as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Apple's Great Big Fail: iBooks Author Is Amazing - But Locks You In as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Goodbye Black Bar, Hello Grey Bar - Google+ Gets a Visual Update as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted How To Set Up Your Home Office with IPv6 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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