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It’s Blogtober again. And this time, I’ve (more or less spontaneously) decided to take part in it. For those of you who don’t know what it is: Blogtober is a writing challenge that takes part every Oktober (similar to Bloguary, Blobuary, Blarch, Blapril, Blay, Blune, Bluly, ...

I spent a fair amount of time on Weird Web October today. artlung.com/wwo/ I added reels recently. And some great rides. I need to shave though. Kind of beardy right now. But I’ll get to a shave soon. So many good likes lately. And new folks added to my blogroll. That’s all I got for...

Had no idea about this secret album from Mariah Carey, produced with her friend Clarissa Dane. Gina Trapani blogs:

To blow off steam, she writes a grunge rock album inspired by alt-rock bands like Garbage, Hole, and Sleater-Kinney. She records it at night with the band after the Daydream sessions, channeling her frustrations into the music, and picks the most perfect name for such a project: Someone’s Ugly Daughter.

Love this. 🎶

Listening to today's David Frum podcast, from a journalist who says he reps the facts-only brand of journalism. He says his guest invented podcasting in 2014, about 14 years after we started it. He then says that anyone in tech in the late 1990s made hundreds of millions of...

Sometimes the battle for open source and freedom can take on very prosaic and practical terms, but the wins can benefit everybody. To give an example: In Beeper we need more memory for showing notifications, because we support end-to-end encryption for networks like Signal, but Apple’s default was to only give 15 megabytes — barely … Continue reading Fight For Open →

Wednesday session

Back in February 2024, I published a blog post about my new—at the time—site. One of the things I mentioned in that post was that this site had a guestbook. Quick aside: a guestbook, for those of you who might not know, is something that used to be fairly common on the web ...

Last month I blogged about the yogurt shop murders. Now they solved it, further exonerating the suspects who were wrongfully charged. One of them was even sentenced to death… What a tragedy upon tragedies if we had accidentally executed an innocent man. Hope the parents and friends find some peace.

Because it’s now in the public domain, I can test video uploads with Steamboat Willie posted to a page on my own blog. Almost 100 years old. Still good.

I was having a conversation with Dan Knauss from the WordCamp Canada team. He said that people in the WordPress world don't think of it as a blogging community. I can see why they resist that, blogging has gotten a lot of bad PR in the last 19 years. The same bad PR that RSS...

It’s October. Autumn is wrapping itself around us, squeezing the leaves from the trees. Summer has slipped away, though it gave us a parting gift of a few pleasant days this week to sit outside at lunchtime. I’ve got a bit of a ritual now for the end of September. I go to S...

1. Start with the text
2. Use size intentionally
3. Contrast weights and styles
4. Play with spacing
5. Use colour, but don’t rely on it
6. Limit your font choices (but choose well and wisely)
7. Repeat, repeat, repeat
8. Test your system

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How law enforcement and private parties can access your information without your knowledge, and what you can do about it.

All the September posts in an OPML file.

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...