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People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
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Indieweb Movie Club - The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
antonio.is/2024/10/06/indieweb-movie-club-the-wizard-of-oz-1939/
Sunday session
Sunday session
1 day, 3 hours, 4 minutes, 49 seconds until this blog is 30.
How about those Mets, day 2
I am reminded of 2015, when the Mets were so charmed -- they could be down 9-0 in the 8th inning and you would tune into the game to see how they'd win it. It's not the usual thing for the Mets, who pull defeat from the jaws of victory far more often than the other way.
And...
WordPress destiny, day 2
Glad I wrote the piece I wrote yesterday. I could have written it any time in the last year as I was investigating and developing on the WordPress API and back end, but now seemed to be a good time, with all the attention its getting, and Matt's interviews, I and others are ...
Ben Werdmuller
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Rules for Resters
[Ben Werdmuller on Medium]
I find myself returning to this piece I wrote on Medium about building downtime into your work and lifestyle. It's important:
Eight years into working in America, I’m still getting used to the macho culture around vacations. I had ...
Ben Werdmuller
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You Can’t Own The Social Web
[Bix Frankonis]
Bix Frankonis does not agree with my analysis of the Fediverse and the Social Web Foundation. For him, much of the issue relates to appropriation of the "social web" name:
"Like many trade groups, this one is named and self-described in a man...
IndieWeb Carnival: Multilingualism in a Global Web
I have heavily invested in 3d printing this season. I feel the need to justify the cost by printing more things. Time to organize my drawers and cabinets. There seem to be a lot of choices in that area.
Finished Rings of Power season 2. I enjoyed it as long as I don’t hold it to the high standard of how a perfect adaptation looks in my mind. Hobbits and dwarves were the strongest this season for me. Elves dialogue is always overly dramatic. Still all the money on screen, some stunning sequences. 📺
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
The two Fediverses
I was tagged in a fairly critical SocialHub post about the Social Web Foundation launch announcement. I wasn’t in a position to add to the conversation then, but I’ve been thinking about it all week.
Before I dive further, a reminder: I am not an employee or founder of...
A WordPress app ecosystem?
A few years before WordPress came out, I did a product called Radio UserLand which was a combination blogging tool and feed reader. Two main screens, a streamlined UI. You could get in quickly, write and publish a post in a minute, and see it show up in the reader a moment l...
Matt Mullenweg
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CNBC on WP Engine
Ari Levy at CNBC has a great article covering the battle between WordPress and Silver Lake / WP Engine: Why WordPress [co-]founder Matt Mullenweg has gone ‘nuclear’ against tech investing giant Silver Lake.
Today I am the man in seat 61 on the Eurostar from Paris to London.
Today I am the man in seat 61 on the Eurostar from Paris to London.
Automattic, WP Engine, and 37signals
The controversy with WordPress continues. In fact, it’s escalating as WP Engine has filed a lawsuit against Automattic, and even some employees inside Automattic are frustrated with Matt Mullenweg’s leadership. Matt blogged about offering Automattic employees a chance to lea...
I think a lot of confusion about AI products comes from the name. It's not clear what intelligence in humans is or how it works. We just believe it exists. So then the question is, can machines do the same thing? The truth is no one knows. It could be that human intelligence...
An idea for Gabe at Techmeme. Here's a screen shot of a story on Techmeme. I don't have time to click on each of the links, but a machine can. I would love to get a AI-generated summary of all the links, the range or reactions, or a consensus if one has emerged.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
[Andrew Schmelyun]
Following my piece about reading the news on paper, I came across this post from Anrew Schmelyun:
"I recently purchased a dot matrix printer from eBay, and thought it would be a great excuse to have a custom "front page" printed out and re...