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Annalee Newitz

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Thinking about writing a historical tale about the classic period of blogging, which began in 2001 with the launch of Movable Type and ended in 2016 with the sale of Gawker Media to Univision

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David Forbes's avatar David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social
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I aged about 50 more years reading this and this is an absolutely amazing idea.

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Would love to read it!

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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Would read. Would message boards come into it?

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Annalee Newitz's avatar Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social
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Obviously there would be magic and dragons. I mean, I personally witnessed Nick Denton's dragon egg containment device.

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Derek Powazek's avatar Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social
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Can the second one be a prequel of the High Republic era that Blogger launched in 1999?

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Adrienne Shaw 's avatar Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social
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As long as it includes the weird public/private interlude of blogging a la LiveJournal (at least for those of us in college at the time) I'm all in for this ;)

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Dave Karpf's avatar Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social
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Carolina A. Miranda's avatar Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social
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YESSSS.

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Michael Pusateri's avatar Michael Pusateri @cruftbox.com
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I remember purchasing an 'enterprise license' from Ben & Mena to use internally at Disney for $200.

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