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The title of this article is very misleading.

is it? Didn't mislead me...

Yep. I was there, and he did say this (amongst other things) during his talk.

Good talk, all in all. 4chan is a refreshing change from VC backed, liquidation-event-directed online communities. Not that 4chan is a Facebook replacement by any means, but it's helpful to remember that an enormous part of what's interesting on the internet is open-source, non-profit, or not profit-motivated.

  what's interesting on the internet is open-source,
  non-profit, or not profit-motivated

You forgot "balls-to-the-wall crazy". An unusual environment is more likely to advocate creativity, from where most of the interesting things spark.

4chan as a whole is not "balls-to-the-wall crazy." Several of their boards are, but as a whole that's not necessarily the case.

True. But I still think it's appropriate because a) when talking about 4chan people don't think of the sane boards and b) the crazy boards hold a great chunk of the traffic (majority?), even if they are outnumbered (not that you need many of them).

Regardless of what we think, 4chan and /b/ are synonymous in most places. And there's a good reason, I don't think international press is interested in the Animals, Traditional Games or Literature boards.

Yeah, I just read this article and I must say the headline is actually refreshingly accurate and non-sensational, which seems to be getting pretty rare in these days of techcrunch style "journalism".

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