Shinji Kuwayama

Cory Doctorow “makes a couple of good points.”:http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203573

1) “[Social networks] make it easy for you to be found by the people you’re looking to avoid.”
2) The big social networks – Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, et al – make it difficult or awkward to *end* relationships.

It’s true, and as a consequence, people tend to eventually “reboot” and [...]

Conrad aphorised to me, years ago, that only software developers and drug pushers call their respective audiences “users”. Today I see a related meme going around; some pundits are imploring each other to stop calling everyone “users”.
That’s cool, and overdue, but this isn’t actually a semantic problem. Sure, you can do a find-and-replace and substitute [...]