After the Fail: moving ahead from the #amazonfail
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It's been over a month since the #amazonfail brouhaha swept Twitter and the web, which is about a century in Internet time. Since then, the Twitterati have moved on to more pressing issues ("#3turnoffwords" and "Patrick Swayze" are trending to the top of the Twitterverse as I write this). The questions that the fiasco raised have largely gone unanswered.
I don't live at Internet speeds, though, so I've continued to think about what Amazon's flub means and what can be done about it. My own sphere of influence is pretty tiny, but I've finished up a little project ...
