A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)

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This seems to be the transcript of a speech given at ETech in April 2003, about why (Web)blogs took so long to emerge (original URL now returns a 404 so I'm using a IA link).

Seems prophetic in the age of X and other platforms that have eaten progressive activism in the current age. On the other hand, that's what it means to be an early adopter.

One answer to the "eternal September" is to accept that platforms burn out and scenes die. Bluesky is good now but it will need to turn a profit some day but there will be something else then.

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