Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Monthly visitors remain relatively stable with over 150k unique visitors and 3 to 4 million page views
David Chee • Is Trump really 62% to win?
To accomplish this goal, the “proud extroversion” of the early Web soon gave way to a much more homogenized experience: hundred-and-forty-character text boxes, uniformly sized photos accompanied by short captions, Like buttons, retweet counts, and, ultimately, a shift away from chronological time lines and profile pages and toward statistically opt... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
“A community is a living organism. It’s either declining or improving; there’s no steady-state in a community.”
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
Engagement over time
Li Jin • Community leaders deserve better: An open letter about community software
• 2.3 million Twitter followers
Ari Lewis • How Dave Portnoy Single Handedly Changed the Media Business Forever — Ari Lewis
Howard Rheingold
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Eventualism has become an accepted norm in the community, because by default since the beginning of the project, starting from nothing, articles have overwhelmingly benefited from multiple eyeballs (and edits).
Andrew Lih • The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
Facebook in 2012:
Arjun Sethi • The Hive is the New Network
Philip E. Agre