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From time to time people ask what the images in the margins of Scripting News mean. I don't think I've ever answered the question on the blog itself. There are many answers to the question because they mean whatever you want them to mean. The point i

To every yin there's a yang. Here's a brilliant counterpoint to what I've been writing here about decentralizing Twitter. I've excerpted the last paragraph because it is some of the best tech writing I've ever read. Wonderful. Echovar: "The idea of

Oh the political debate is getting interesting! Assuming the Democratic nomination is actually decided, then what is Hillary Clinton's future role? Last night on Larry King I heard Carole Simpson, a black woman, supporter of HRC, say that it's white

There's a game being played on Twitter that goes like this. "When Obama wins..." The game is to fill in the blank creatively. . Here are some examples. Here's my entry.

The tech industry is organized around the concept of wars. In recent memory, the browser wars, the Java wars, before that there were wars over email APIs, desktops, GUIs, networking standards, you name it, if there's money to be made in controlling u

We're working to build a scalable, beautiful new TwitterGram, an application built on the super-powerful SwitchAbit platform.

This post on TechCrunch started a bit of discussion. Ben Metcalfe posted an interesting video comment there, embedded below.

I just uploaded a song I recorded on Tuesday to Pownce. After two tries, it worked. You have to be logged in to download the song but anyone can play it. Hmmm. That removes one potential application I had in mind, Pownce as a podcast-serving platform

I just posted a Tweet: "After seeing comments blossom in FriendFeed, it seems either Twitter should have comments, or extend the API so someone else can add them." Why? 1. People still reply to tweets, expecting a response in a tweet. It's noise to

Twitter is still my mainstay in microblogging, but I'm using FriendFeed more, and today Pownce removed an important limit that will make it useful in a way that neither Twitter or FriendFeed are. And because all three have APIs and excellent support