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<h2>I am 12 and what is this</h2>
- <p>Blërg is a miniblogging platform. It's less limited than
- microblogging platforms like <a
- href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>, but much simpler than
- full-blown blogging platforms like <a
- href="http://wordpress.com/">Wordpress</a> or <a
- href="http://livejournal.com/">Livejournal</a>. Blërg is also an open
- source tagged text database engine written in C that does the back-end
- work.</p>
+ <p>Blërg is a microblogging platform. Or maybe a miniblogging
+ platform. Blërg is not sure. Blërg is a lot like <a
+ href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>, but aims to fix some of its
+ idiosyncracies. Blërg does not want to be a full blogging platform
+ like <a href="http://wordpress.com/">Wordpress</a> or <a
+ href="http://livejournal.com/">Livejournal</a>. Blërg is also an <a
+ href="/doc/">open source tagged text database engine</a> written in C
+ that does the back-end work. Blërg's author finds it entertaining to
+ anthropomorphize Blërg in the third person.</p>
<h2>But what's wrong with Twitter?</h2>
- <p>I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. While I don't believe the basic social premise
- of Twitter is broken, there are two facets of it that are IMNSHO just
- wrong:</p>
+ <p>I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. There are two aspects of Twitter that just bug
+ me as an engineer:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Ruby on Rails</strong> - Using rails to prototype a system is
- fine — scaling up to a million hits a day with it is just poor
- engineering. As the service grew, I'm sure it cost them a lot more
- time than it saved.</li>
+ fine — scaling up to a million hits a day with it is just a bad
+ idea. As the service grew, I'm sure it cost them a lot more time than
+ it saved.</li>
<li><strong>140 characters is not enough</strong> - I routinely write
- sentences longer than 140 characters, so I can't imagine even beginning to
- make a point in such a small space. This textual confinement has led to the
- rise of URL shorteners, which are <a
+ sentences longer than 140 characters, so I can't even begin to imagine
+ making a point in such a small space. This textual confinement has
+
led to the rise of URL shorteners, which are <a
href="http://bytex64.net/blog/e2256">breaking the internet</a>.
</ol>
fully functional service created in a fit of hubris to poke fun at Twitter's
engineering. It's just for fun, but no one is going to keep you from using
it seriously. :]</p>
+
+ <h2>Tell me more about this database engine.</h2>
+
+ <p>Here, take a look at the <a href="/doc/#design">design docs</a>.</p>
+
+ <h2>I'm a social media whore and I want to share links!</h2>
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+ <p>I've created a bookmarklet just for you: <a href="javascript:location.href='http://blerg.dominionofawesome.com/?post/'+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'/'+encodeURIComponent(location.href)">Blërg it!</a></p>
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