I have plenty of friends in real life, but live in Chicago, and it’s winter! This is my attempt at engagement with the internets.Tumblr (3.0; @wiemersl)http://posts.wiemersl.com/<a href="http://sivers.org/papabill">Papa Bill: I don't need to worry about you.</a>: <p>Derek has some great posts on entrepreneurship and other topics.  This is about moving on from this world.</p>http://posts.wiemersl.com/post/289510756http://posts.wiemersl.com/post/289510756Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:02:43 -0600<p>After using the web for quite some time now (I started writing web code in perl in 1999), I&#8217;ve finally decided to try my hand at posting.  I say posting because I&#8217;ve always cringed at the word &#8216;blogging&#8217;.  Thus, I will not blog, but POST!</p> <p>I have a twitter account, but hardly ever use it.  I know it is a new protocol, interesting way to find resources, and that is all fine and good, but I&#8217;m with cdixon when he makes the case that we shouldn&#8217;t hand over the management of a fundamental web service to a &#8220;<a href="http://cdixon.org/2009/09/29/twitter-killed-rss-and-thats-a-bad-thing/">for-profit-gatekeeper</a>&#8221;.  I agree, and further, think that URL shortening services kill a fundamental piece of UI, which is anchor text.  Do I want to follow this link: <a href="http://crap.ly?qRx8y"><a href="http://crap.ly/qRx8y">http://crap.ly/qRx8y</a></a>&#8230;how would I know?</p>http://posts.wiemersl.com/post/288405454http://posts.wiemersl.com/post/288405454Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:55:00 -0600