chadmalik

Yes but there needs to be a protocol not just a competing server.

It seems like the older internet protocol standards like SMTP work better. At least some of this generation of protocols seems to have played out in horrible ways like the IM market where one or at most 4 vendors have walled gardens and an open standard doesn't win. I guess in the early 70s when SMTP was designed there weren't a bunch of big corporations looking to "monetize" every new feature, just some bearded coding gurus in academia who wanted to build something that worked.

Is there any reason why the whole publish+subscribe Blogs / RSS complex hasn't settled on a reasonably easy to implement standard similar to SMTP that allows organizations to run their own microblog server?

Its really disgusting to think of twitter (or any single vendor) "owning" this kind of function and preventing simple things like allowing text indexing.

Remind me of how Moore was opposing the Greenspan monetary policies and Bush fiscal policies? Oh, right, he didn't.

It defies parody that a Rand protege (Greenspan) and Rand supporters like Moore basically created this mess.

If you can't see that theres something wrong with American society that manifests in our young then there's something wrong with you.

I'm sure those immigrant parents know the benefits of America; thats why they came here. But stop bullshitting: kids here do a LOT of insane stuff that has to be a major shock to anyone coming from a traditional culture. The little monsters I see in the store curse at their parents like sailors, demand everything, are obviously lazy, etc. I can excuse a parent who doesn't like that.

....bringing up a good point which is: why are people like Lawrence Summers, Paulson, Bernanke etc. expected to get us out of this mess when they CREATED it?

Things WILL get worse as our political system is unwilling to punish incompetence and the people who predicted this stuff would happen aren't being listened to now that its obvious they were right.

The word "debt" appears way too little. The word "credit" isn't even in the article. The whole mess we're in is because of borrowing from the future via a debt bubble to escape deflation after the dotcom/telecom bust of the early 2000's. I think Greenspun needs to read up a bit more on whats really happened.

Facebook users are used to basically only broadcasting updates to the people they know. I think would take a long time and energy for FB to get them to accept twitter-style openness and it would probably make a lot of FB users look for a new platform. Also FB makes you tie your real name to your profile whereas Twitter lets you use an assumed username which I think is necessary for twitter style microblogging.