Mining the sewer
When you're mining for gold in a sewer, what do you expect?
What worked fine for a bunch of US university kids, is proving far more problematic "at scale". Facebook needs to come to terms with the fact that it is now operating in a very different league, with all kinds of powers and responsibilities that it never had before. Has any other organisation ever seen such growth in power and influence in such a short space of time? Yet the ethos of the company, the mindset of the guy at the top, is still essentially the same. Organisational change -- its very hard.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
