http://12frogs.com/12/archives/2004/08/the-accidental-rifle/ read think get curious Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:09:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://12frogs.com/12/archives/2004/08/the-accidental-rifle/comment-page-1/#comment-6679 12 frogs » Blog Archive » UGM, UGC, UCC.. is the web trying to cough up a hairball? Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:20:33 +0000 #comment-6679 [...] Is nothing sacred? I wouldn’t want The Accident Rifle to be used by Fedex, or this birthday wish appropriated by Hallmark. I love my PowerBook, but the stories I tell about it aren’t for Apple (or Microsoft or Lenovo). I don’t want, or need, to make a buck off every single thing I do. Some of the advisors to this train wreck in progress surprise me: Ross Mayfield (Mr Wiki) and Zeldman (Mr Web Standards). Guys, just because you can build something doesn’t mean you should. In principle, how different is this idea from the blog posts for hire scheme? Not very. [...] [...] Is nothing sacred? I wouldn’t want The Accident Rifle to be used by Fedex, or this birthday wish appropriated by Hallmark. I love my PowerBook, but the stories I tell about it aren’t for Apple (or Microsoft or Lenovo). I don’t want, or need, to make a buck off every single thing I do. Some of the advisors to this train wreck in progress surprise me: Ross Mayfield (Mr Wiki) and Zeldman (Mr Web Standards). Guys, just because you can build something doesn’t mean you should. In principle, how different is this idea from the blog posts for hire scheme? Not very. [...]

]]> http://12frogs.com/12/archives/2004/08/the-accidental-rifle/comment-page-1/#comment-2815 12 frogs » Blog Archive » The web is the real world Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:46:25 +0000 #comment-2815 [...] I know it works this way for me. I can’t, off the top of my head, list every book I’ve read in the last four years. But I can go to to my book review blog and refresh my memory. The story of how, when my grandmother tried to ship me an old polaroid camera, I wound up with a rifle has an accessible and arguably permanent home living as a blog post. [...] [...] I know it works this way for me. I can’t, off the top of my head, list every book I’ve read in the last four years. But I can go to to my book review blog and refresh my memory. The story of how, when my grandmother tried to ship me an old polaroid camera, I wound up with a rifle has an accessible and arguably permanent home living as a blog post. [...]

]]> http://12frogs.com/12/archives/2004/08/the-accidental-rifle/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Boston Common Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-326 <trackback /><strong>The accidental rifle</strong> How can you not read a post that begins: I knew my grandmother could not possibly have meant to have sent me the gun, but... The accidental rifle
How can you not read a post that begins: I knew my grandmother could not possibly have meant to have sent me the gun, but…

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