The 16-year rewrite
In February 1992, I started work a piece of Frontier called the scheduler. It’s the equivalent of what they call “cron” in Unix-Land. You can put scripts in four different places: 1. everyMinute scripts, 2. hourly scripts, 3. overnight scripts and 4. threads. It was a simple bit of code that’s been running now for […]
How to do data portability
I’ve heard a lot about data portability conferences and workshops, I’ve even been criticized for not going to one which happened on the west coast while I was in the east earlier this month. I don’t plan to go to any of them, I don’t see what’s accomplished by having public meetings about this stuff. […]
Should Twitter charge high-spew users?
Om Malik asks if Twitter should charge users like Scoble who have huge numbers of followers.
It’s a fair question because these users are super-expensive for Twitter, much more so than users with modest numbers of followers.
To get an idea, I have a little agent script that counts and ranks people I have followed in the […]