On giving a shit

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/06/01/on-giving-a-shit

by spolu • 9 years ago

33 3 9 years ago

Could someone maybe add "about the open web" to the title? Otherwise it does not sound too interesting.

Apparently Joe Hewitt is gardening during the summer months, and then working solo on a programming language (https://github.com/joehewitt/moya) among other things, in the winter months.

He feels the open web doesn't matter any more, and is embarrassed that he used to think it did, among other things.

Seems like he's not totally secure in his decisions, still.

nomel• 9 years ago

can’t be searched by Google

I'm not sure this will really resonate with non technical people. Their thought pattern could be "Why make people search on Google? What's wrong with searching on Facebook? Why do you think Google is so much better?"

They just see a search engine that does or doesn't show content. If web search is available to Facebook, then Google has lost for non technical people, "I can't find what I want on Google, but I can on Facebook. Google isn't any good! You were wrong!"

Facebook is the new AOL. People who don't know the problem don't care, why would they? Just like you couldn't convince Grandpa to stop using AOL, because the internet was available for free, you're not going to convince people to not use something that works for them, for some strange technical reason that claims that what they know and enjoy is somehow "bad".

On giving a shit

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