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I did a rewrite of the FeedCorps page in FeedLand. You get to it through the Reading Lists sub-menu of the Tools menu. There are three lists in the new version. A lot were false starts, they didn't make the cut. I'm always adding feeds to my blogroll and news.scripting.com. Unfortunately I can't say the same for podcasts, which are not hooked up to my podcast app. I really want a hot connection there. We'll get there. The reading lists feature is going to play a big role going forward in the open social web we're building. BTW, I really like the name FeedCorps. I haven't talked about it very much. It's a cause, like peace or freedom. Open those suckas up. Feeds all the way babe.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
I went to OB this morning and had fun. I can feel the summer winding down. I’ve not posted to IG lately in favor of other platforms, including my own website. And the world… well, it’s a difficult time for so many right now. There’s so much misery: much of it inflicted by terrible and often venal leadership. Be good to yourself, and be good to others. Participate in the government you’re a citizen of. You are the people. And the people have power.
Reading Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Reading Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
A few days ago I worked with ChatGPT to generate an RSS feed of news that interests me. Here's a writeup with a place to comment and perhaps to collaborate on doing this for real. ChatGPT has real limits. This has to be done off on the side. It certainly could be done with their API. I'm head-down on other projects and can't do it myself but as I explain in the writeup, it would plug in beautifully to stuff I'm doing and it would all be open, so a new kind of feed reader is possible. And we could find news from other bloggers that the journalists aren't reporting on, the same way we relied on blogs in the early days to learn about what was going on on the web. It's time to do that again.
Float like a bee, sting like a butterfly.
Float like a bee, sting like a butterfly.
Twenty-nine years of promises and give me more
lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/29-years-of-promises-and-give-me-more
“I think the most powerful thing that the new Alexa+ has done for me is it has made me forgive Apple for not shipping anything with the new Siri.” — Casey Newton on Hard Fork
Find My has always been too slow for me. It feels like Apple sometimes caches a user’s last location on their servers, but either for not very long or just infrequently. So you fire up the app, and it appears to ping each phone to get the latest location. Gotta be a better way that is still private.
The last of the Apollo 8 crew is gone.
The last of the Apollo 8 crew is gone.
This Week in the IndieWeb
August 1-8, 2025
Recent Events
From events.indieweb.org/archive:
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific
Wednesday, August 6 at 6:00pm
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London
Wednesday, August 6 at 7:00pm
Philly Homebrew Website Club
Sunday, August 3 at 6:00pm
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Updated to Tahoe beta 5. No problems, pretty much the same for me as beta 4. I don’t actually use many of Apple’s built-in apps, so until more third-party apps are updated for Liquid Glass, it’s not a very jarring upgrade. I use Xcode, Terminal, Photos, and then all other Apple apps only rarely.
My IndieWeb Journey: Building, Sharing, and Owning Your Online Presence.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
This interview of Sam Altman by Cleo Abram is excellent. I know there are some Sam haters out there. I received some shit for my blog post about him. But there are deep questions here about the future, some interesting speculation, and figuring out how to anticipate potential future harm too.
Just noticed this new Micro.blog theme: Bothy. Looks good!
I want the web to be like Harvard
Back in the beginning I wanted the web to be like Harvard.
It's one of the reasons I went there as a research fellow in 2003.
I wasn't satisfied with the web, the density of minds wasn't up to my expectations, so I thought if I brought the web to the minds, that might work ...
UI in AI is the next frontier
Yesterday I wrote a quick review of ChatGPT 5, after trying a simple programming exercise with it. It was an awful collaboration because it lied to me about its capabilities, leading me to develop a feature in my software to support the capability that it later admitted that...
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
P&B: Alexandra
This is the 102nd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Alexandra and her blog, xandra.cc
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I’m somewhat obsessed with CMAT’s Euro Country. An opening verse in Irish and a blistering bridge that might single-handedly scupper Bertie Ahern's presidential ambitions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SVNTv44C4g
I’m somewhat obsessed with CMAT’s Euro Country. An opening verse in Irish and a blistering bridge that might single-handedly scupper Bertie Ahern’s presidential ambitions.