Gordon's Notes

Twitter will become a blend of home shopping network, daytime TV, and tabloid news. That might be quite profitable. There is money in sane...

This is how to build a safe, sane, and sustainable social network. Build it to be viable on $1/user year. Sell memberships for $25/year. ...

My ( @johngordon ) App.net services are beginning to fail - including PourOver . Post counts are gone. I still find some great discussions; ...

I still want a graph layer atop my notes . Yes, I want my personal locally stored data unlocked  memex . Since the passing fad of the web ...

My feeds (Feedbin/Reeder) have never gone quiet — but there’s no doubt it was getting harder to find links to feeds over the two years since...

Revisiting  something I wrote 14 years ago  reminded me of the tools I use to think about the world. Once those tools were conversation, pap...

The modern publicly traded corporation is to data as water is to iron. It is a challenging environment for use of anything but the most corr...

Stocks are overpriced again . It's probably not too much of a bubble (yet), but we continue to be significantly above "trend"...

I joined App.net  ($5/month or $36/year) about five months ago . Although it's fundamentally a messaging infrastructure it's curren...

Once every few days to weeks I write a short essay, from a few paragraphs to a few "pages" (remember the page?).  Every few minute...

There's a hierarchy in big time science schools, and physics holds the crown. (Math majors are in a different league.) Physicists are, f...

Setting aside the act of mass datacide that moved Google up my corporate evil scale , G+ suffers from a fundamental Circle problem. It may ...

Google Reader Social is dead. Thanks to its creators for showing what could be done, and thanks go Google for leaving room in the market to ...

Let's get the good news out of the way. Google has stepped back from their Buzz/G+  nymwar policy. Google will support pseudonyms . So...

The geeks of my tribe share two obsessions. We are obsessed with managing and extending our knowledge. We are obsessed with communicatio...

Jon Udell has been testing G+. He nails it in two words ... Distracting chatter is useful. But thanks to RSS (remember that?) it’s optiona...

Today one of the quality bloggers I read declared  blogging is dying . Two weeks ago, Brent Simmons, an early sub/pub (RSS, Atom) adopter ta...

A NYT headline says half of all American adults have Facebook accounts [4]. Twitter-like valuations are leading to tech bubble denials. Soc...

I get emails when a reader (infrequently) comments. The author deleted this comment, so I'll keep it anonymous ... Say, is it not odd ...

Google , and Buzz , are flailing . Facebook is evil . Twitter is annoyingly limited [1]. We need to reimagine focalcast realtime communica...