"It is now 88 followers, and I have just been retweeted. Sweet!"

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Fascinating discussion of the evolution (and violation) of the emerging blogosphere convention for citing links, in the late 90s. A few years ago, I was exploring what happened to the canonical first blogs, a short list of frequently updated web pages that  Jesse James Garret identified as weblogs, and I mentioned in passing that I…

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Sharing music files: Tactics of a challenge to the industry

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