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lil  ·  4190 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's this Hubski thing that I'm hearing about on NPR?

thenewgreen sent me the URL for the radio station, so I heard it "live" even though it was taped. Good work guys. When the interviewer asked, what do you see when you go to the website, Mark replied "a wall of text." I thought, "well that will send them running in the opposite direction, and yet AndrewK wasn't discouraged.





AndrewK  ·  4189 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I wasn't discourage because it sounded like a local "what we all want from Reddit" -- where ,sure enough, we all seem to get discouraged.

mk  ·  4190 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I had the same thought after I said it. Steve actually used the term "wall of text" in another conversation with me, but he made it sound much better. Then again, War and Peace is several hundred walls of text, and it's done well enough.

ecib  ·  4190 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think it's bad at all. You know, it's not about the number of users, it's about the right users. I'm sorry, but a 'thoughtful web' is going to have some text.

lil  ·  4190 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Could be a slogan: Hubski, the War and Peace of Social Media.

"Wall of text" has a Phil Spector feel about it. The wall-thing worked for him - for a while.

thenewgreen  ·  4190 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What I said was "when you visit Hubski, it's going to look like a wall of text, but what you won't initially see are all the conversations, the relationships and the big ideas beyond that wall of text. Like anything worthwhile in life, it takes an investment of time to see what Hubski truly has to offer."

That's my wall of text. btw, I love the Phil Spector idea. Please, for the love of Pete, someone take that photo of mk and super-impose a Phil Spector afro :-)

Thanks for listening LIVE. When I mentioned my friends in Toronto, you better believe I was thinking of my pals lil and theadvancedapes. I was bummed we didn't get to talk about Discussion Via Hubski. Ah... next time.

lil  ·  4189 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Phil

mk Should be doable...

katakowsj  ·  4186 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Mk Spector has arrived.

mk  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think I pull it off better than Phil.

lil  ·  4186 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hubski: The Website with a Wall of Text

thenewgreen  ·  4186 days ago  ·  link  ·  

HA! That is amazing. Well done.

katakowsj  ·  4186 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks. He's my brother. I couldn't resist. He could pull this look off actually. To any Colombian soccer aficionados out there, he could someday be known as the "Carlos Valderrama of the Thoughtful Web".

lil  ·  4186 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I thought that the Katakows name looked familiar, or should I say family-yarr.

lil  ·  4186 days ago  ·  link  ·  

ha ha, can hardly wait!