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I was looking over my blog archive for August 2006, which was when I started using Twitter, and came across this video of Jason Calacanis, at a Wikipedia conference in Cambridge. This is what videos were like back then, tiny and very short. I probably took it with a fairly expensive Nikon camera.

Saw an interview with Mark Cuban where they asked why would Elon Musk do something that would cause Tesla stock to tank. How could he say no? He's got the power to play with the biggest financial thing that has ever existed, and quite possibly that ever will exist. In compari...

I heard an idea that really resonated in a Brian Lehrer interview with Anand Giridharadas, who says among many other things, that we should aim our ire at the leaders of the MAGA movement, and stop bringing our angst to the people who voted for them. Every time I see a condescending TikTok story about them, I think about how that takes us further from getting where we must go. We have to reconcile, we share a country, and our interests are totally aligned. We need each other, that will become completely obvious, and the sooner it does the better.

Please, today -- write a blog post that explains why you believe in The Writer's Web. That the best way to express our ideas on the web is with all the tools that writers have invented. And while we may enjoy using social media like Bluesky or Mastodon, we understand that they are not for writing and are not the web. Please send me a link to your post and I will read what you've written with thanks for believing in writers and the web! You can use any blogging software you like. My email address is dave.winer@gmail.com. And thank you.

I keep hearing pundits and incumbent Democrats missing the point, that the people are the ones whose opinion matters about the Republicans dismantling our democracy in the United States. I want to celebrate those leaders who totally get that the power is with the people, no...

"It's the people, dummy!"

This is the 81st edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Keenan and their blog, gkeenan.co To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every ...

I’ve been out of town for a few days and not coding much, but Vincent has been working on the mobile app. iOS folks, a new TestFlight beta is out with creating a new blog category and editing summaries, plus other fixes. A couple more tweaks and then will ship to everyone.

Thursday session

Overheard, single mom who took her 401k and put it into starting a new business. Not everyone should do this, but… I love it. YOLO.

Reading Hera by Jennifer Saint.

Goodbye, Amsterdam!

Responding to John Gruber’s AI post yesterday, Om Malik blogs:

Just as Google is trapped in the 10-blue-link prison, which prevents it from doing something radical, Apple has its own golden handcuffs. It’s a company weighed down by its market capitalization and what stock market expects from it.

Chet Collins reviews my book Indie Microblogging. Most people who have checked it out have just skimmed through it a little, which is fine! Love to see a detailed look, though. I still plan to publish a final final draft with a few updates.

Ana Rodrigues blogs about how websites can be good as a playground and for others to learn from:

But deep down, all I want for my personal website is to give back to the web. I want anyone, regardless of skill level, to inspect elements, understand the structure, and learn from readable code.

Imagine my surprise, when, roughly two weeks ago, I received a direct message on Mastodon from Brandon Kelly, the founder and head of the team behind Craft CMS, opening with: 👋 I spent today work­i...

The web was initially designed for writers. Styling, links, paragraphs, titles (at all levels). The ability to edit. No character limits. That's what we had to work with when we started blogging in the mid-late 90s. Then there was a big corner-turn in 2006. In an instant th...

bookmarked Building Websites With lots of little HTML pages

Great post from John Gruber about Apple Intelligence and the Siri delays:

Leaders prove their mettle and create their legacies not by how they deal with successes but by how they deal with — how they acknowledge, understand, adapt, and solve — problems. The fiasco is that Apple pitched a story that wasn’t true, one that some people within the company surely understood wasn’t true, and they set a course based on that.

WWDC is pivotal. Apple needs to have a much clearer and demo-able vision for AI.