Jeremy Cherfas

Well, yes. And increasingly, as I read pieces like this one, I find myself thinking that although it isn’t hard to take the necessary steps to reclaim the social interactions we want, it needs to be done. That makes it a positive step, which gives it extra weight. I’ve already set up Instagram so I see what I want as I want it. And some of Twitter. FB I really don’t care about that much.

On what planet does Techcrunch live? Their report on Anchor’s bid to lure podcasters from SoundCloud says n0thing about whether audio hosted there will be sharable via, say, Huffduffer, which to me was the biggest single problem with SoundCloud as a podcast host.I would also argue that a promise by Anchor “to cut podcasters in when it starts to earn money” isn’t much to go on.But what do I know?

Listening to www.cookerybythebook.com/home/2016… for #earbudsfood and IHAQ: any recipes for purple cookies? @iamsuzychase

@TamarHaspel True; just as bread, beer and wine aren’t biotechnology.

Anyone at #graingathering2017 using composite crosses like Italian farmers? www.eatthispodcast.com/back-to-t…

@EarbudsPodCol Hey, thanks. Anything I can do to help?

@pazzobooks Thanks Tom. Not all history. Today, the future of wheat @meanlouise @/besslovejoy

@SnackBattlesPod Thanks for the mention; hope you’re enjoying it.

Terrific pieces in the shortlist for #hearsay2017 prizes. www.hearsayfestival.ie/new-2017-… Can’t wait to listen.

Blast. Just when I was reaching around to pat myself on the back for making webmentions work on the Mothership, I notice some big problems.First, the home page is all messed up with duplicates of many things. Doesn’t seem to happen on the local version, which means it is going to be tricky as all get out to solve.Secondly, the markup on the Mothership leaves a lot to be desired. That one will be a lot easier.There are probably others too.#IndieWeb

This is all a bit tense, but with any luck there’s a chance that this reply will soon show up, suitably styled, on the Mothership. When (if?) it does, there will be dancing in the streets.

[T]he invisible hand is usually just giving you the finger if you care about what you makeThis downbeat summary does seem to be on the mark, at least for good software. I didn’t upgrade to Day One Premium, because Classic does all I need. Does that make me part of the problem? I don’t believe it does, any more than darning my socks (which I don’t do) or patching my trousers (which I do) makes me a bad consumer. Definitely, the people who make beautiful software need a better way to sell their creations, and no, I don’t know what that might be.

No idea what happened to the million. But the page is an interesting artefact that, in its current state is, I venture, a more accurate keep[sake of the internet than it would be had it all stayed up and running.The article suggests that:Given the existence of powerful and widely accessible tools such as the Wayback machine, this kind of restorative curation may well be within reach.To which I would be fairly vehemently opposed

I donated to ‘Help save Snopes.com!’ - gf.me/u/biicca via @gofundme

We watched Lobster with Colin Farrell and other luminaries last night, and all I can say is, er …

Language Log – a useful site I really enjoy – recently wrote again about the big debate on whether language shapes, constrains or otherwise has any effect on thought. But that’s not why I’m noting it here. Instead, there’s the reason why they’re talking about it again.In 2010 The Econonomist hosted a big debate on Language and Thought. It used a very spiffy web-enabled platform to host the debate, and a language academic thought it would make a dandy introduction to some readings she is poutting together on the topic. Alas …[T]he Economist’s intro page on this debate leads only to an debate archive site that doesn’t include this one; and the links in old LLOG posts are now redirected to the same unhelpful location.A source at the magazine explained:We vastly over-designed the debate platform (and over-thought it generally, in various ways), and when we stopped running the debates that way, we stopped running that bit of the website. The old debates are now unavailable online.Fortunately for all concerned Language Log was able to find copies in the Internet Archive. But if it hadn’t …#indieweb

Not going too well, is it?

Truly, I did not know this.