Stowe Boyd writes about social media, the future of work, and technology trends, with posts on Twitter, Facebook and online discussion.
HN commenters link it for his takes on online discussion, Facebook as the new AOL, and network centrality, and as the original source for quoted posts.
Felt like I heard the Facebook/AOL comparison before... turns out it pops up in a lot of places:
Kottke, 2007:
http://www.kottke.org/07/06/facebook-is-the-new-aol
Marketing tech blog, 2009:
https://www.marketingtechblog.com/facebook-is-the-new-aol/
Stowe Boyd, 2010:
http://stoweboyd.com/post/7928792532/the-decline-and-fall-of-facebook-cringely-on
PC Mag, 2010:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372729,00.asp
The Verge, 2015: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/4/7488495/facebook-is-the-new-aol
NY Mag, 2015:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/facebook-is-the-new-aol.html
"... i would love to see a way to pump all this discussion on hacker news into disqus ..."
This quote resonates a lot. Especially after reading Stowe Boyds` response "Fred Wilson on Leaving The Instigator Out: Small Worlds v Big World" on exactly this problem ~ http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/05/a-vc-web-discus.html
Marshall McLuhan once said that the last thing a fish would ever notice in it’s habitat is the water. Likewise, the most obvious and powerful realities of our human culture seem to also be the most unrecognised.
http://stoweboyd.com/2013/07/12/marshall-mcluhan-once-said-that-the-last-thing-a/
Also, I should point out that his reasoning for betweenness over eigvector centrality was given in a link in the article: http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/its-betweenness-that-matters-not-your-eigenvalue-the-dark-ma.html
Linking to the original source is ideal: http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/6518390176/jason-calacanis-blogging-is-dead-why-stupid
Also, the formatting there is much easier to read.