links for 2010-04-15

• The Dawn of Facebook’s People-organized Web
  Liz Gannes writing in January 2010 on how Facebook is planning to expand Facebook Connect to create a "people-organized Web" - a great insight.

  If the rise of the Weblog and Web 2.0 were about filtering information for other people, then a people-organized Web is an evolution of that: a people-centric Web, one where a user profile and friends activity stream is at the heart of the entire Web experience.

  
  
  (tags: socialnetworks socialmedia webculture internet facebook)
  
  
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  The words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary. - - Slate Magazine
  
  
  DFW's complete collection of books and all of their marginalia was included when the University of Texas' Ransom Center acquired his estate. These are words he had circled in his American Heritage Dictionary for some reason.
  
  
  (tags: david_foster_wallace Writing language literature posthumous via_MetaFilter)