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Filters: Part 2: Thinking about the network as filter
3. If you must filter “on the way in”, then make sure the filter is at the edge, the consumer, the receiver, the subscriber, and not at the source or publisher.
JP Rangaswami • On firehoses and filters: Part 1
The difference between a protocol network like email and a corporate network like Twitter is that email’s network effect accrues to a community instead of a company.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
It is hard for us humans to separate information from meaning because we cannot help interpreting messages. We infuse messages with meaning automatically, fooling ourselves to believe that the meaning of a message is carried in the message. But it is not. This is only an illusion. Meaning is derived from context and prior knowledge. Meaning is the ... See more