Irregularity

A weekly-ish email to my internet friends

34: Did you hear…?

1.0 Secret Secret finally reached Germany and the first evening was huge fun. Complete with backchannel chatter about who might be behind which message. If you care to join me and the other secret-havers: my email address is dschwind@lostfocus.de – you might want to add me to your address book before you join up. (Yes, […]

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1.0 Secret

Secret finally reached Germany and the first evening was huge fun. Complete with backchannel chatter about who might be behind which message.
If you care to join me and the other secret-havers: my email address is dschwind@lostfocus.de – you might want to add me to your address book before you join up. (Yes, they use the address book to connect people, which is a bit iffy.)

Related: this article by Mat Honan over on Wired: Anonymous Apps Are So Scary, They May Just Help Us Discover Ourselves
Now we only need to figure out how to become online famous with that thing.

2.0 MetaFilter

I am still bummed out about the MetaFilter story. Here is Matt Haughey on the Future of MetaFilter. It’s all rather sad.
On the Future of MetaFilter

3.0 Netflix

Apparently Netflix will come to Germany. Everybody on Twitter goes nuts. It will probably not be any better than the other local streaming services with content mostly in German and a year too late.
I am willing to be surprised, though.


It’s the middle of the week and according to my Withings app, I have reached 50% of my weight loss goal for this week. Well, that’s neat.
Dominik