Originally published on “Just In: Joseph Dunphy’s Newsblog / Connecting to Digg” on February 16, 2008. The post begins:“Yet another blog from he who could fill out the ones he already has a lot more? Perhaps, but like any good...
Topics: Digg

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A discussion (of sorts) between a user (me) and the owner of a service (Larry Halff of Ma.gnolia):Me, five days ago: “I was wondering if anybody else was having this problem. I recently got my invitation message to join the new Ma.gnolia –...
Topics: clueless, functionality, Ma.gnolia, social bookmarking sites

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Note: I’ve deleted a small amount of profanity that was present in the material I’ve quoted, replacing it with roughly synonymous nonprofanity in parantheses, because I’ve decided to move toward making my own pages a little more family..
Topics: disinformation, rebuttal

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Yes, it’s a general question, but looking in the help center, I found nothing very helpful, and I’ve already burned away more than an hour on this nonsense. Honestly, I’m starting to get a little angry, after a while. This should be a...
Topics: user unfriendliness, Vox

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Note: This is a question about a possible change in policy that, should it really be coming, one would do well to act on well in advance of its adoption. If you are not a Google employee, please do not try to answer it. Your guesses might be interesting,.
Topics: Uncategorized

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