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Dec 05, 2012
“Twitter feels like continually moving to NYC without knowing anyone whereas Facebook feels like you’re living in your hometown and hanging with everyone you went to high school with. Twitter’s we’re-all-here-in-the-moment thing… is what makes it possible for people to continually reinvent themselves on Twitter. You don’t have any of that Facebook baggage, the peer pressure from a lifetime of friends, holding you back. You are who your last dozen tweets say you are.
— Jason Kottke, “Twitter is a machine for continual self-invention”
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Jan 31, 2011
» Cameras for kids
Jason Kottke gave his kiddo an old Powershot with an SD card that automatically uploads the photos to Flickr. What a cool idea.
Sep 10, 2010
» "Just Don't Look" by Jason Kottke
Don’t like something on the internet? The best strategy is often to ignore it:
The “just don’t look” strategy works for more than advertising…it’s effective in any situation where someone or something runs on attention. On the web attention comes in the form of links and pageviews so “just don’t look” translates roughly into “just don’t link or read”. If you don’t like who’s on the cover of Wired, just don’t look. If no one talks about her, she’ll go away. Think media gossip sites are ruining the web? Don’t read them. Leggy blonde conservative got your knickers in a knot? Just don’t look. Commenters ruining the internet? Moderate your comments or close them up. If some Web 2.0 blowhard says something stupid, just don’t look. Hate blonde socialites? Just. Don’t. Look.
This has always been my approach to blogging — I only blog about the things I love and want people to look at.
It’s also called “Criticism by Omission.”
