I Committed To An Email-Free Morning For 5 Days, Here’s What I Learned

How to turn a simple and really easy idea into a pot-boiler of dubious worth.


@AgroBioDiverse You can have your 15 minutes ...

@AgroBioDiverse You can have your 15 minutes …


@marieprice2 Fun and all, but to whom ...

@marieprice2 Fun and all, but to whom do I complain about question 6? The idea that Svalbard is more famous than VIR is preposterous.


Latest episode looks at food-borne illness. Are industrial food chains worse than farmers' markets? Nobody knows. Listen at https://www.eatthispodcast.com/food-safety-and-industry-concentration/

#e #norovirus


And hello to you too.

And hello to you too.


Thanks for the wayback link Kevin. I ...

Thanks for the wayback link Kevin. I failed to find it first time around. There are so many interesting points in that post and in the comments, and also a faint whiff of déja vu. The sidebar shows exactly what went wrong with pingbacks and trackbacks, and I suspect there is still no way to bridge the gap between the “commenting is broken” and the “technology will fix commenting” crowds.

In the end, we both know, it depends absolutely on the people involved. Maintaining a website that you regard as your own does require maintenance. Like a garden, you may choose to let a few weeds flourish, for the wildlife, and you may also seek to encourage volunteers, for the aesthetics. A garden without wildlife is dull, a garden without aesthetics is pointless.


"Tummling, SideWiki, Twitter and the Tragedy of the Comments revisited"


"WhatsApp founder sends Facebook users a coded message by quitting | John Naughton"


"A microentry"


"American culture* and the new new Coke"


"L'UE autorise les agriculteurs bio à vendre leurs propres semences"


> the default assumption that everyone should ...

the default assumption that everyone should read every comment on a forum is an idea that fails at scale too, as one troll or disruptive person can spoil everyone’s reading - the Tragedy of the Comments.

A shame that the link to Tragedy of the Comments is dead, it sounded interesting and prescient.


2018-05-07

I think I just need to remind myself and others of the natural progresion of things. Everything not forbidden is permitted. Everything not permitted is forbidden. Everything not forbidden is compulsory That is all. #indieweb


@jessfanzo You've very welcome. And there's more ...

@jessfanzo You’ve very welcome. And there’s more to come.


Data Peddling Scum is the name of ...

Data Peddling Scum is the name of my new Grunge tribute band.


Just another Saturday morning at the urban homestead; making cheese, growing seeds, feeding the rye starter.


"American culture* and the story of OJ"


"The Only Way Is Ethics?"


"American culture* and the Harvard Business School discovery"


"Who We Are: #9 Europe"