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My view of an Eschaton link event


One of the interesting properties of Atrios' readers is how close they are to the temporal present. This is visible in the decay function from peak. Ironically, one of the design goals of the web was asynchronous (temporally unbound), connectionless communication. Perhaps the blog mechanism isn't the best fit for this kind of user community, something along the lines of IM or chat with a circular buffer for state (recent memory) might do better.

Posted by EBW on November 29, 2005 06:18 PM |

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See those four squares in our logo? We call it the cursor, and like an old-school command prompt, it means we're awaiting input. current.tv

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Looks a lot like a Slashdot effect.

Posted by: Tom - Daai Tou Laam | November 30, 2005 10:11 AM

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