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<title>An Idea of America</title>
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<summary>Some thinking I’ve been doing on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence</summary>
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<title>Has the IndieWeb Become Irrelevant?</title>
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<published>2024-08-26T05:57:32-04:00</published>
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<summary>To me it was always irrelevant; I’m not the Tom Bombadil of the Web, but I’m close.</summary>
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<entry>
<title>Containment, Social Media, and the Dangers of Imitation</title>
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<published>2019-12-21T23:58:00-05:00</published>
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<summary>When social media creates cacophony instead of community, deplatforming is a necessary containment strategy.</summary>
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