“Journalism is the new practice for Everyman, it’s what we all will be doing all the time in this new century. As the professional media pulls back, the citizens, you and me, need to fill in and replace every pro with 100 of us, to cover every school board meeting, every planning commission, defense contractor, civic organization. It’s like the Second Amendment for information and ideas. We need a well-informed electorate to make the tough decisions n our future.”

“Job titles, boxes in org charts, are so last-millennium. They are relics of an Industrial Age that was born of the doomed notion that people are best understood as cogs in corporate machines. … What matters most in the long run is who you are. Not who you work for.”— Doc Searls on Robert Scoble’s value to Microsoft

Testing my firehose reader (update).

Seems pretty naive in hindsight. :-)

“When they finish the process of better and better targeted advertising, that’s when the whole idea of advertising will go poof, will disappear. If it’s perfectly targeted, it isn’t advertising, it’s information. Information is welcome, advertising is offensive. Who wants to pay to create information that’s discarded? Who wants to pay to be a nuisance? Wouldn’t it be better to pay to get the information to the people who want it? Are you afraid no one wants your information? Then maybe you’d better do some research and make a product that people actually want to know about.”

“No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.” –Arthur C. Clarke

This is the post it came from.

http://scripting.com/stories/2008/09/16/theWholeWorldIsWatching.html

“Being an American in 2008 is a lot like working at Microsoft in 1994 or so. Netscape is coming soon and after that Google, and while we’ll still be here, the cursor will be somewhere else, and our stock options will be worthless and we’ll be fighting with each other while the rest of the world builds around us.” — Dave Winer

“I am tormented, or tantalized, by the sense that I am almost in view of something that is at the limit of my comprehension.” — Neal Stephenson’s Anathem (pg 543)

“He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.”— The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin (1971)

"The great ones are indifferent, in the profoundest sense. They don’t ask you to believe: they electrify you by their behavior."-- Henry Miller (Sexus)

“a place where people can come to get a taste of what I think and what I stand for, and it’s a place where people can match and measure their own ideas against what I put out there.” -- Chris Brogan (2010)

Scott Adams (2011): “It’s easy to feel trapped in your own life. Circumstances can sometimes feel as if they form a jail around you. But there’s almost nothing you can’t learn your way out of. If you don’t like who you are, you have the option of learning until you become someone else. Life is like a jail with an unlocked, heavy door. You’re free the minute you realize the door will open if you simply lean into it.”

I'm looking into how to document privacy for an RSS-based, federated service, and I'd love to see how others have handled it. Specifically: what happens to a post once it leaves your server — syndicated over RSS, cached, crossposted to another instance, or shown by third-par...

“My optimism is like an old cat that likes to disappear for days, but I always expect it to return.”— Scott Adams

Thought this was quite interesting, https://textlog.cc/about

Do you ever sweat while computing? I don’t have the survey data to prove it, but I think people, when they compute, expend a lot of energy, enough energy to sweat, and that they sweat more than they replenish with water.

Do you ever feel that there are times when your computing setup is “just right”? Like, in the Goldilocks sense. Everything is just perfect, and you don't want it to change, because the number of bugs and annoyances are down to a minimum…somehow? I'm currently not there, but have been there a few days this year.

"There are, of course, differences between Micro.blog and rss.chat, but the intention behind both is very similar, isn't it?"

This app is holding the place for a protocol I want to be widely supported. It's also documented and there's even a validator for it. I want it to be easy to hook up other apps to the network this defines. And all the source code is released under the MIT license.

It's not my place to say what micro.blog is -- but the other day I called it: "the swiss army knife of interop in the web of the 2020's." And in that it is unique and imho irreplaceable.

I'm trying to create a new kind of network for discourse on the web, again the blog posts will tell you more about that.

Still my favorite: https://daftsocial.com/drikkes/

Es gibt natürlich Unterschiede zwischen micro.blog und rss.chat, aber die Intention hinter beiden ähnelt sich doch sehr, oder?

https://www.redbubble.com/people/drikkes/shop

https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html

The Agency was quite good.

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-agency-2024/

Well look at that @dave .. it worked .. taking the same route as you .. just in a different truck … here to Micro.blog to BlueSky … and Mastodon, Threads, Tumblr et al .. thanks to @manton.

Yes … despite the proclamation .. logo once again gone. I know why. I know how to fix it. I just need to actually do it!

Following some breadcrumbs.

De afgelopen dagen denk ik weer na hoe ik online alles in balans breng. Mijn blog, interessante links, online aanwezigheid, CreativeNotes, comments, maar tegelijk de professionele kant van die online aanwezigheid. Hoe hou ik dat in evenwicht. Ik zou dat na 26 jaar bloggen toch wel moeten weten. Niets is minder waar. Het blijft zoeken. De huidige site op frankmeeuwsen.com is in elk geval niet voldoende. Dat is al een jaar een lelijke placeholder voor wat er zou moeten komen. Daar moet ik eens werk van maken. Maar er moet ook een manuscript af. Gelukkig heb ik nog een paar weken redelijk wat werkvrije tijd.

This is a test post.

It has a title so it should be routed to the place where standard.site says they should go.

And I will be able to read them in this place.

Where I must imagine it behaves something like a feed reader.

Postscript. For the post that was to be routed to standard.site (whatever that means) I can find no evidence that something was sent somewhere.