Backspace to the Future (the dislike club part I)
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia
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🗓️ 14 November 2014
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Paul Ford is a technologist and a writer, sometimes these two things blur. For example, he’s currently working on a book about webpages, but he’s also building a content management system for webpages – because you know it could help with the writing. (yeah his book is late) Its not like he’s trying to procrastinate, this is just what life is like when you are Paul Ford. A couple of Monday night’s ago he was sitting on his couch drinking some rye whisky and chatting with his friends on twitter and he accidentally a brand new webpage community. This is the true origin story of his tilde.club. Yours truly also started a new thing it is called dislike.club. We also check in with Librarian and community manager Jessamyn West for advice on how to start an online community that doesn’t suck.
The Dislike Club is a story-in-progress, it will play out on the podcast over the next few weeks and then culminate December 21 on Radiotonic, from ABC RN’s Creative Audio Unit.
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| 1:31.0 | This installment is called Back Space to the Future. |
| 1:37.0 | What happened was we got the kids to bed and it was like eight and we'd made a rule that you only should drink on the weekend because I'm 40 and I just had to like get start to get stuff under control and so I was like well it's it's you know it's the weekend I think |
| 1:56.8 | or maybe it was Monday night I got to go back and look anyway yeah it was Monday night, sorry. |
| 2:05.0 | Paul Ford is a technologist and a writer. |
| 2:08.0 | Sometimes the two blur. |
| 2:10.0 | For example, he's currently working on a book about web pages for FSG, but he's also building |
| 2:16.8 | a content management system for web pages, because, you know, it'll help him with the writing yeah his book is late it's not like he's |
| 2:28.0 | trying to procrastinate things just happen like on that particular Monday night, |
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