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A profile of Tim and the World World Web.

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I started this site to hold some of the essays John Palfrey posts on Facebook, where they are out of reach of the tools of the open web. John is a longtime friend, for over 20 years, and we did some great stuff together in the early days of the blogosphere. I will happily turn the site over to JP any time he wants to take over, and provide personal support if there are problems. I want him in my online web family, and Facebook simply does not make that possible, it's a silo, as we know and that means it's basically a world unto itself. If we want to solve the problems of the world, we have to step out into the open space where what we write is not so local or controlled.

A picture of the blogger's room at Dean For America in January 2004. A big chunk of political history happened in this room. I was there, in the runup to the Iowa caucus and on the night of the famous Dean Scream. The picture is so tiny because that was the resolution of my digital camera in 2004. It wasn't cheap and as we know it was futuristic.

A fascinating look at the importance of undersea cables, taken from a new book called The Web Beneath the Waves.

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Merrill Markoe talking about Colbert & Kimmel is amazing. I actually once shepherded a piece on the Letterman NBC show called “Meet the Censors”, in which we intentionally violated, in front of a live studio audience, every one of NBC Dept. of Standards and Practices censorship rules. We then asked the censors to have their...

Really good series. Aces to the finals, but the Fever kept getting back in the game over and over. Fitting to end in OT. 🏀

Thinking about the current storage capacity of my card index collection, I made a back-of-the-index-card calculation:   172,000 index cards * 150 words / card [average maximum, using front only] * 1,200 bytes / 150 words [rough average with Unicode encoding] * 1 kb / 1024 bytes * 1MB/1024 kb = approximately 200 MB of text … Continue reading

Congrats to the Iconfactory on releasing Tapestry 1.3. Nice to explore their take on adopting Liquid Glass. Most apps I use haven’t updated yet.

You are writing a post about birds. Your mind is now sculpted into a new shape, imagining that you are writing a post in response to Fractal Kitty’s IndieWeb Blog Carnival Prompt, Second Person Birds. You wonder if you remember what “second person” actually is. And you do! You know that you have plenty of...

Since I mused last week about expanding the video hosting in Micro.blog, I’ve been working on some behind the scenes changes to make that happen. I’ll post more about it this week. But already in early testing I’m happy to say it is dramatically better.

Sora 2 is invite-only, so not entirely sure the scope of it, but I’m getting the feeling that it’s much more of a move into social than Sora 1. Sam Altman writing on his blog:

Social media has had some good effects on the world, but it’s also had some bad ones. We are aware of how addictive a service like this could become, and we can imagine many ways it could be used for bullying.

The OpenAI team deepfaked themselves in the announcement videos. Bizarre!

I think some of the best writing about technology PR is this ten-year-old article by Aaron Zamost: What’s Your Hour in ‘Silicon Valley Time’? It describes the cycles that companies go through in public perception, and the beauty of revisiting it ten years later is that you can see which of the examples are still … Continue reading What’s Your Time? →

The sky and clouds while walking yesterday.

One thing journalism could do for us is sponsor polls to find out how many people are scared about what's coming next and how scared are they?

The stock market is doing really well, still. But a really important part of our workforce is being attacked by the government. I have no idea what's going on among the immigrant workers in the US. Maybe this is something one of the news orgs could look at. But it seems we must already be short on labor to do the things that keep our lives and businesses functioning. If so, why isn't that showing up in the market?

WordLand is not a blogging platform, it builds on a blogging platform.

If you’re reading this blog using RSS or via email (when I remember to send the content via email), you likely didn’t notice it. And if you’re reading my blog in the browser but are not a sharp observer, chances are, you also didn’t notice it. A new version of my site is liv...

Kagi launches Kagi News. I love this approach of having a single, daily update:

We publish once per day around noon UTC, creating a natural endpoint to news consumption. This is a deliberate design choice that turns news from an endless habit into a contained ritual.