RSS 2.0Speak, and the Internet listens. This is happening to me more and more: I’ll be chatting away on Twitter, assuming that my conversation will be, if not private, then at least lost in the chatter and of no real interest to anybody. And then, like an unwanted genie, the subject of the conversation will appear with a puff of smoke at my side.
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July 8th, 2009 | No Comments
MetaFilter at 10: How to scan a cat, and other subjects
July 8th, 2009 | No Comments
“Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I’ve seen in some time,” wrote Haughey. “I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.”
This was how MetaFilter started, ten years ago: with wry humour and some cat photos. Next week, thousands of people will be toasting its anniversary – hundreds of them at parties in rented-out pubs in cities from Toronto to Tokyo. But for MetaFilter, a funny thing happened on the way to success…
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