Backspace to the Future (the dislike club part I)

Published: Nov. 14, 2014, 5:10 p.m.

Paul Ford is a technologist and a writer, sometimes these two things blur. For example, he\u2019s currently working on a book about webpages, but he\u2019s also building a content management system for webpages \u2013 \xa0because you know it could\xa0help with the writing. \xa0(yeah his book is late) Its not like he\u2019s trying to procrastinate, this is just what life is like when you are Paul Ford.\xa0\xa0A couple of Monday night\u2019s ago\xa0he was sitting on his couch drinking some rye whisky and chatting with his friends on twitter \xa0and he accidentally a brand\xa0new webpage community. \xa0This is the true origin story of his\xa0tilde.club. Yours truly also started a new thing it is called dislike.club. We also check in with Librarian and community manager Jessamyn West for advice on how to start an online community that doesn\u2019t suck.

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The Dislike Club is \xa0a story-in-progress, it will play out on the podcast over the next few weeks and then culminate December 21 on Radiotonic, from ABC RN\u2019s Creative Audio Unit.

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