Tag: Maciej Cegłowski

Maciej on advertising

Advertisers like to use moralizing language when their money starts to flow in the wrong direction. Tricking people into watching ads is good; being tricked into showing ads to automated traffic is evil.

What Happens Next Will Amaze You.

The Internet With A Human Face. The transcript and slides from Maciej Cegłowski’s fantastic talk at Beyond Tellerrand. It winds through the alienation and mass data collection of the internet but ends with a forward-looking vision.

The business of bookmarking. Maciej Ceglowski covers the basics of Pinboard’s business. Fascinating look at what goes in to making Pinboard run effectively and profitably. (via Marco Arment)

Don’t Be A Free User

What if a little site you love doesn’t have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn’t take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.

maciej – Don’t Be A Free User.

A personal archive

This was a lot of excitement for one year. Since the whole point of Pinboard is to be around for the long haul, I’m hoping for much less of it in the year to come. A personal archive works a little bit like a bank – you want to be able to use it and forget about it, rather than see it pop up in the evening news.

maciej – Two years of Pinboard.