Chris reminds me, I ought to get ...
Chris reminds me, I ought to get something lined up for a global celebration.
I tried posting from micro.blog (on ios) ...
I tried posting from micro.blog (on ios) to my site, and all I got was an error message. Not easy to debug. So now I’m trying from the OSX app. Sorry if I disturbed anyone.
I see @cygnoir has just asked Samuel ...
I see @cygnoir has just asked Samuel Clay to add sharing to micro.blog to Newsblur. It would be even better to support any site with Micropub. That would be so worthwhile an addition to a great feed reader.
I don't know about you, @mdesoucey , ...
I don’t know about you, @mdesoucey , but I’m missing out on it being on Facebook.
Great headlines of our time. "A ...
Great headlines of our time. “A study by the Public University of Navarre wins an award at an international conference”
Prepping for an imminent interview by reading ...
Prepping for an imminent interview by reading newfoodeconomy.org/npis-bird… from @newfoodeconomy.
When I teach writing (which I do), ...
When I teach writing (which I do), I always say to people, “This is ambiguous. Sure, I can ask you here in class. But most people who read this aren’t going to be able to ask you to clarify. They’re either going to be confused, or jump to the meaning you don’t want them to.”
The silly thing is, Dave is there to clarify, and he chooses not to.
How to discourage enterprise in the English countryside
I have only seen one side of Nick Snelgar’s dispute with his local planning authority but I have no reason to doubt what I’ve seen there. To me it seems indisputable that, no matter what politicians like Michael Gove may say, there is no real desire to allow small farmers to reform the farming and food landscape in England.
What's the problem?
Over at Scripting News, Dave Winer says: Every blog should have a Subscribe button. In an open ecosystem this is a problem, a problem that silos don’t have. Which is the advantage Twitter (a silo) has over the open web. I guess I’m not smart enough to see what that problem might be.
Adactio: Journal—GDPR and Google Analytics
It’s almost as if the ubiquitous surveillance of people’s every move on the web wasn’t a very good idea in the first place.M’kay. Tell that to the squillionaires.
Diving into diacetyl for this week's Eat ...
Diving into diacetyl for this week’s Eat This Newsletter. You still have time to subscribe. www.eatthispodcast.com/form-view…
Someone's a bit fed up
Essentially, the non-semantic web is a balkanised hellscape of competing open and proprietary metadata standards.And I don’t blame him one bit. Moreover, I’m increasingly fed up with the idea of modifying my website to do the work of undoing the Balkan megalomania.#indieweb
