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5th April 2009 - Link Blog

Mending The Bitter Absence of Reasoned Technical Discussion. Not at all surprised to see Alex Payne write this considering the low quality of discussion around anything technical to do with Twitter.

Posted 5th April 2009 at 7:59 pm

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