2016-10-28 (Friday)
Writing
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What isn’t an Incredible Journey?
Is Twitter’s closure of Vine an Incredible Journey?
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@jkottke There is something so happy-making about these things!
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@kottke There are a few similarly good (and others less good) on reddit.com/r/CrowdPulledO… I think youtube.com/watch?v=Bceuh8… is still my fave.
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@NeilBennun It just took me 15 minutes to work out how to get a PDF from my Mac on to my iPad.
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@marks Part of me has sympathy, part of me thinks “you didn’t think this might happen?”
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@dracos Yeah, seems to nice and easy and free and everything to last. Also, this glass is half-empty!
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@dracos I meant a start-up/business, rather than a hobby, but I kind of ran out of characters :)
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We're starting an effort to archive @vine. If you have favorites, please let us know by using this Google Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1otnjc…
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And, yes, it’s easy for me to sit up here in my ivory hobby horse taking gentle potshots at people, having never started anything myself.
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I could have written that as an unwieldy and hard-to-find-in-the-future series of tweets, as is all the rage. But I like you.
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I wrote about why I don’t think Vine’s closure counts as an Incredible Journey: ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/post/152418580… In case you care.
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@textfiles I’m easily persuaded either way!
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“Buy a business and close its service” is very different to “Buy a business and try to make it work for years, but fail”.
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Should Vine count as an “Incredible Journey”? It’s been 4 years since acquisition. After so long it’s more like a business failing, sadly.
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@philgyford I know you wanted to spend the next 3 hours arguing with me