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I love Scott’s posts because they’re nearly always small enough to “clip” in their entirety.Theses are good lessons. Notes taken.

clipped from scott.heiferman.com

Secrets to Fotolog’s Scaling Success:
* The site is intentionally simple.
* Popularity is driven by a base of active users, not a rich set of cool features.
* Constraints in web sites can, like [...]

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One of the most spectacular and spectacularly loaded aspects of my recent trip to Israel was my visit to the Western (Wailing) Wall, on my last Shabbat afternoon in the country.

One of the traditions of going to the wall is to leave a prayer in its cracks, as it is — for the Jewish people [...]

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This letter, sent to the New York Times in June of 2004, is a part of the “Public Record” collection on innonate.com.
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After reading David Halbfinger’s Tuesday, June 1st piece “In 5 Words by Langston Hughes, Kerry Aides Hear a Likely Campaign Slogan,” I began to think about my earliest attention to politics. It was January [...]

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Cierro la ventana y las cortinas
para que el mundo afuera
no me despierte
por la mañana.
Pero, acercándome a la pared de
cristal, huelo la verdadero mundo
en que existo. Y la cierro.
Y escucho. A nada. Extranjero de ocio en
un país que pudiera haber sido mío;
pero pudiera haber sido en otro lugar el mío.
Y todo que pudiera haber sido mío
pudiera [...]

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