Facebook does not understand friendship
As we further hand over the management of our social relationships to Facebook, perhaps we need to pause for a moment and consider whether Facebook understands friendship.
holy crap, my world is flat!
This realization has crept upon me. Even though I've talked about the flatness of information structures before, I'm seeing a strong pattern emerge which is, well, kind of blowing my mind. Keep in mind, I am a serious structuralist.
Eventual inconsistency
A friend just sent me a link on 'Eventual consistency', a term used to describe a problem of syncing data between cloud servers. This was in response to some bizarre…