Blogger = public email messages (1999) Instead of "Dear Bob, Check out this movie." it's "Dear People I May or May Not Know Who Are Interested in Film Noir, check out this movie. If you like it, maybe we can be friends."
Stack Overflow = public learning (2008) • Fun-size units of Q&A “work” • Document how much we suck, so that others might learn from it!
• Leave breadcrumb trails of our awesomeness
Dave Winer 1995
“Software is a process, it's never finished, it's always evolving. That's its nature. We know our software sucks. But it's shipping! Next time we'll do better, but even then it will be shitty. The only software that's perfect is one you're dreaming about. Real software crashes, loses data, is hard to learn and hard to use. But it's a process. We'll make it less shitty. Just watch!”