Now that we know that John Edwards had an affair and probably fathered the child, one good thing is that we can stop talking about tire pressure gauges. :-)
That was an unconvincing article. I still want federation!
- Mike Keliher
from twhirl
Hoping in an interesting discussion here - I feel that the post itself is short-sighted and self-confident.
- Opensource Obscure
When people say they want 'federation' do they mean that every post from every user on every server should go to every other server? Or are they willing to accept that they'll only see future posts from their friends on new servers? In which case each server only has to handle receiving messages for the contacts of their users.
- Adewale Oshineye
"Systems dump excess energy in the form of structure." Genius! via Johnnie
- Adriana Lukas
cf Joseph Tainter: "1. Human societies are problem solving organisations. 2 Sociopolitical systems require energy for their maintenance. 3. Increased complexity carries with it increased costs per capita; and 4. Investment is sociopolitical complexity as a problem-solving response often reaches a point of declining marginal returns." Not as pithy, but interesting all the same. http://tinyurl.com/57qt4j
- David Steven
Re-posting my comment from the blog: The reason you don't get much spam on Twitter is that you can't send messages to groups of people... You can post statuses, and anyone who's chosen to follow you will see it, but it was their choice to follow you. You can send individual direct messages, but that's one-to-one communication and doesn't scale like spammers like. With Email I can just send messages to multiple addresses. Similarly with a Jabber server using pubsub, if I run my own and enter false subscriptions, I can spam a whole slew of Jabber addresses. The distributed model would make this trivial, and spammers would certainly take advantage. Yes, Email and IRC are stable... but what could they have been? What if you'd been able to easily define email forms that people could fill out and return? All of the things built on Lotus Notes were an attempt to turn Email into a more valuable business tool, but the standards made those innovations a lock-in to one platform (and a poor one at that)....
- Jason Carreira