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Passed a billboard for Basecamp on the highway somewhere outside of Austin today. That was unexpected.

There are probably going to be a few more of these.

You hear the term Open Social Web used in places where things that are social are neither open or web. They aren't that far, and here today I'm going to give you a fast and easy recipe for linking the collection of social twitter-like sites into a real honest to goodness ope...

This year has been a roller coaster in so many ways. Thanks everyone who has supported me and Micro.blog. I’m currently working on a slight redesign to our home page, fixing glitches and unifying the Micro.one and Micro.blog pages. I don’t usually make enough time to tell new folks what we’re about.

We live in interesting times. Never a dull moment! 😄

I'm communicating more with people in the WordPress community. There's so much to the story, we have to make up for 20 years or so since we turned in the direction of silos. There's a lot of catching up to do. I hope at some point people figure out that a lot of interop can be attained very inexpensively and quickly by hooking the input and output of each distinct network up to other networks that don't currently interop. Neither ActivityPub or AT Proto is suited for that. Too complicated and honestly too strange. RSS has has 20+ years to burn in. Lots of familiarity there, and lots of working code. When people get really serious about interop, and are willing to sacrifice a little personal glory, there's a very good compromise available. We've been here before. This isn't a new idea in tech at all.

I've been looking for hard-hitting stories about yesterday's Supreme Court decision that gives Trump far more power than any American president has ever had. And unlike military power, which they are clearly not very good at using, the people running the show in the White House, are very much prepared for how they will use the new power, which appears to be unlimited.

I'm working on the next part of linkblogging in WordLand. I want to really switch over to the new routine. There was a question of whether I wanted to push the links to the social sites, Bluesky, Mastodon, etc. I've decided I do, but for the moment only to push to Bluesky. It's the only one with a simple enough-enough API or feels worth the effort to me. I'm basically focusing my politics on Bluesky these days. Also seems there are people there who are interested in the development I do. I have far more "followers" on Twitter, but at this point I think most of them are gone. And Threads just dropped off my radar a while back. I'm just not interested. For me now it's mostly Bluesky and Facebook.

Net-net: I would pay money to hear a podcast with Frum and Stewart interviewing each other. That would be very powerful stuff imho.

The latest David Frum podcast is about tech billionaires. Once again he talks about who he's willing to listen to. He's really smart, thinks about things, and speaks brilliantly, but cultivates his ignorance and speaks openly about it. In contrast, I listened to Jon Stewart's...

Winding down on the last few days of this month’s Micro.blog photo challenge. Not too late to post a photo or two if you want to join at the end! 📷

Browsing stock.adobe.com, there’s a new problem with the flood of AI-generated artwork. I’m willing to pay more for art created by a human, just as I want to read words written by a human and not a robot. AI-generated art is abundant and cheap to produce. Yet they are both priced the same by Adobe.

Fixed the broken images on morningcoffeenotes.com caused when it transitioned to https.

I have a Google Alerts query for my own name, just to see if any journalism outlets mention me. When it happens, it's often to give me credit for co-creating an app called iPodder, which they say was where podcasting started. None of that is true. But that's what journalism ...

John Bell!

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It’s safe to assume that you have, at some point in your life, complained about something or someone. I certainly did, more than once. I used to complain a lot more, actually. But one day I realized that the source of all those annoyances and frustrations was not the world o...

Checked in at St George’s Market. Belfast breakfast of champions — with Jessica

In season 4, episode 3 “Scallop” of The Bear (FX, 2025), the inimitable Rob Reiner shows up as a business consultant by the name of Albert Schnurr. In his introduction, he’s wearing a black baseball cap featuring a typewriter. A line drawing/outline, it looks a bit like a Corona 3 to me. It’s definitely not … Continue reading

June 20-27, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Americas Wednesday, June 25 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, June 25 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club Edinburgh Tuesday, June 24 at 6:00pm EDINBURGH, S...

Subject: REMINDER: Project hosting ends in 2 weeks ⏳ Hello, We are rapidly approaching the migration deadline to keep your projects live, as support for project hosting will end on July 8, 2025. Here is what you need to know: Your Glitch dashboard will be available through the end of 2025 with code downloads for...