Technological questions sometimes have social answers

Remember around '98, when everybody said we'd soon have personalized AI bots that would trawl news on the web and send us interesting stuff?

Now, instead, we've figured out ways to trick each other into doing that for us.

(crossposted from twitter)

Kudzu

Proposal no.7, submitted 02/15/2009, Fred Scharmen, originally uploaded by Balt.Infill.Survey.

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tree , originally uploaded by ske765book.