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Aaron Swartz's Bubble City

• bootload 19y ago
  "... Today's enemy? Newsflip, one of the crummy little online news aggregator sites, which was threatening to write him out of the history books by dumping the technology he'd single-handedly invented, news notation analysis (NNA), and going with some upstart competitor that didn't even bother to have an acronym for a name. Sure, Newsflip was a tiny site in the scheme of things, but if it switched it would set a dangerous precedent ..." First chapter wasn't a bad read. Sarah sounds a bit too much like JT in Snowcrash on a hoverboard. But it was this paragraph that really peaked my interest. Substitute: - NotABug for Newsflip - NNA for reddit in lisp - Wayne for Aaron Art imitating life?