People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
P&B: James A. Reeves
This is the 94th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have James A. Reeves and his blog, jamesreeves.co
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Steve Job’s commencement speech at Stanford is so good. On the 20th anniversary, the Steve Jobs Archive has published notes and drafts he sent himself. I love seeing this.
Tragic airplane crash in India. A single survivor out of over 200 people… Keep thinking of Unbreakable.
Today I’ve been fixing little bugs in Micro.blog for iPhone that have been annoying me. Any glitches that you’d like to see prioritized? Let me know!
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
It's going to be a long summer. WIRED has some advice for being prepared.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance:
"The nation, fractured by war, disease, and famine, has seen more than 6 million people die since the mid-1990s, making the conflict the deadliest since World War II. But, in recent years, the death and destruction have been aided by
I’m sure this acquisition of Clay was in the works for a while, but the timing feels wrong so soon after the Automattic layoffs. I’ve been mostly supportive of Matt Mullenweg and Automattic through all the drama. I’d just like to see them get back on track.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Play With Clay
Happy to announce that the amazing Clay.earth product and team is joining Automattic. If you haven’t tried the app out yet, here’s a quick video to give you a taste. TechCrunch has covered the broader strategy pretty well: One of the top requests we’ve heard from Beeper beta testers is they want to tie in … Continue reading Play With Clay →
Enough with AI
I’m going to take a break from AI-related blogging for a few months. I think the pause will do me and my readers some good. It’s too divisive an issue, and I expect in the coming years there will be a small but vocal faction that pushes back against AI more than there has be...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
It’s awesome when I’m not the only non-surfboard person in the lineup. Terrific morning.
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Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
404 Media reports that the country's major airlines are selling passenger data to Customs and Border Protection and ICE.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Welcome to the new Werd I/O
I relaunched my website on Ghost. Here's why.
Democrats and men
Yesterday I posted a link to my political disclaimer from 2018. Also listened to a podcast interview with Senator Gallego of Arizona who says, correctly that the Democrats have work to do with men. It's true, speaking as a man who has been voting solid Democratic since Kerry...
Today I'm going to teach WordLand how to be a linkblog. Before doing that I tried to figure out what a linkblog is. I have been using various homebrew linkblogging tools which I have shared with others, but none of them became popular products. I wrote a summary to help guide the development work I have planned.
I was lucky to grow up in NYC, and had to commute from Queens to the Bronx every day to go to school. Some days I took the Q44 bus over the Whitestone Bridge, and other days I took the Q17 to the 7 train through Manhattan, and then the 4 or D trains up to 205th St in the Bron...
Accessible Rickrolling
Understanding the parity principle in accessibility, using rick-rolling as an example.
Generalissimo Trump?
I was wondering if Saturday's military parade in Washington was going to be the rollout of the Trump junta, and if that meant the president would appear in military garb, perhaps subdued so next year's parade they can add more features. So I asked ChatGPT to help.
President...
Wednesday session in Camden
Wednesday session in Camden
I needed an updated bio for a conference in October.