Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan

@robinsloan San Francisco
Writer and media inventor. First novel coming in 2012 from @. Mostly tweets about writing, technology, art, journalism & things seen on city streets.
http://robinsloan.com
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@ Both great picks. The talent that Khan Academy is attracting is pretty incredible.
 
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@ Lots of things to like about BERG, but one of my favorites is the way they work in public:
 
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@ Ooh what's Oblong? Link?
 
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Here's my list, I think: @ @ (biased, sorry) @ @ aaand… nominations?
 
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Told a friend I think @ is one of the 4-5 most exciting orgs in the world right now, & that got me wondering: what are the others?
 
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@ Good sell—couldn't not click on that link. (And now I want a French press cozy!)
 
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@ @ Sites like make me think of the early dictionaries @ talked about in THE INFORMATION
 
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@ @ More than a search engine, I want a dictionary for animated GIFs, and/or a thesaurus
 
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(Okay actually there's no fire. Couldn't resist the image & alliteration though.)
 
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Town is serene & snowbound. Internet connection has gone missing; ice in the fiber? Digital winter. Faving tweets on phones around the fire.
 
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@ @ @ email is the sine qua non of company communications… you get good at it! (2/2)
 
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@ @ @ Automattic is one data point—best emailers I've ever encountered. Super fast, crystal clear. When (1/2)
 
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@ "'Girls notice,' said Matt Graves, a communications director at Twitter, who prefers orange and blue stripes." Made my day.
 
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@ Totally agree. I dug up & watched the pilot awhile ago—still so relevant! And so much fun
 
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@ Contemptibly!
 
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@ Favorite idea discovered via @ tweet in last 24 hours: "the Precariat"
 
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@ @ @ Shoulda left off the "precisely" huh? The "precisely" never ends well…
 
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@ It's real—not exactly as I described (no spidery arms) but definitely real.
 
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Tweets & morning TV know when they'll be consumed, more or less; that's unique & useful. Anyway, nice touch @: