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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
That’s a bit of a disappointment. Daily Kos won’t play nicely with Instapaper.
We have had an extensive discussion today in irc #indieweb-dev and I think we are beginning to see what is going on. I will try and summarise here later
