Jake Savin

“Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí


July 2007

  • WSJ gets it wrong: Blogging is more than 10 years old

    I just went and checked. My first ever blog post (and no, the word blog didn’t exist yet) was on May 15, 1997. It’s been at that URL or one very similar for as long as I can remember. Formerly the site had lived at http://www.arrowweb.com/jsavin, but I moved it to jspace.org as soon as… Continue reading

  • What is Windows Live Spaces Anyway?

    Is it a blogging tool? A publishing platform? A social networking service? I don’t think it really knows. My guess is that if Spaces were to launch today as a brand new blogging service that no one had ever seen before, it would probably be panned for its confusing user interfaces, for being cluttered with lots of shallow… Continue reading