“We have created this social media system for ourselves where the only way to survive is to either be bland or silent”
– Jon Ronson, Channel 4 News, 17 March 2015
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What happened to RobotWisdom?
Jorn Barger, 2008
As many of you know RobotWisdom was the proto-Weblog and Bjorn Barger the father of blogging. I have posted about him several times. He has drifted in and out of view since 2003, but now Ogi Djuraskovic has a very nice history of the site and Barger – Jorn Barger and Where “Blog” Came From .
“Resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world”
“The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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