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Dan York
Personal blog · disruptiveconversations.comwebculture
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.
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?
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”Submitted As An Author, Why I Truly Hate Ebook DRM as a story · 60 points
HN discussionhttps://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”Submitted CSS3 Generator - A Great Way to Quickly Get CSS3 Code as a story · 10 points
HN discussionGoogle: 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?”Submitted My Problem With Klout Scores: Beyonce Gets a 50 - Without Ever Sending A Tweet as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted At What Point Do We Just Stop Caring About IE6 Visitors? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wow - Facebook Acquires Instagram as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Today's Squawk Box will discuss "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Super Simple Secret To Stopping Online Piracy (Hint: Not SOPA) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook Acquires eBook Maker Push Pop Press - See The TED Video To Understand as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do You Flip? Cisco Says "No" And Shuts Down Flip Video as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2 Very Simple Ways to Backup All Your Del.icio.us Bookmarks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are Facebook Pages About to Get Notifications? Screenshots of a preview as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating "Tweetable Moments": Public Speaking In the Age of Twitter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Get Notified via SMS When Someone Mentions You And a Keyword On Twitter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Will Not Be Rushing To Upgrade To Evernote 5 For Mac as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yet Another Skitch / Evernote Fail - Image Sharing/Uploading No Longer Works as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Would You Buy A .blog Domain Name? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Auto-Update WordPress Custom Themes Using Github as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple's Great Big Fail: iBooks Author Is Amazing - But Locks You In as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye Black Bar, Hello Grey Bar - Google+ Gets a Visual Update as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Set Up Your Home Office with IPv6 as a story · 1 points
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