Daily Archives: June 11, 2024

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    • But wait, there’s less!

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 11, 2024

    Reading Scoble’s blog about his departure from MS, I realize how pissy my ho-humming it in the previous post might seem.  Robert’s earnest integrity, his unselfconscious self-absorbtion, his position as avatar of tech bloggers everywhere – all point to a more serious and credible context for this “one man leaves corporate gig for a well [...]

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    From the sublime to the “Gee, really?”

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 11, 2024

    Jon Husband, co-founder of Qumana, is one of those people who hangs out there in the world of the internecks doing great work and making me feel guilty for not having his energy and focus. A website, an effort of Jon’s that’s not getting enough of my attention, is Thermo[SAT]. A year or so ago [...]

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    Suck Lives!

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 11, 2024

    Pixels tidily cast in lucite, pages served from somewhere deep in the bat-cave, Suck (“a fish, a barrel, and a smoking gun”), the once mighty webPub and meme-machine-’zine emerged this morning through clickage associated with a hunt for David Foster Wallace. Nick Maniatis’ Howling Fantods, an extended DFW bibliography, has the top Google rank for [...]

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