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Twitter became a hairball. I first heard this term in speeches given by a tech exec, Scott McNealy, talking about a competitor’s product. A hairball is something a cat coughs up. Very undesirable. Of...
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I asked “Is news copyrightable” on various social web sites because people aren’t making a distinction between the expression and the underlying facts of news. If an AI bot reads a news article, and...
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan: “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”#
View Article“Overturn an election?”
I spend a lot of time thinking about words, and when I hear a phrase that seems wrong to me, I’ll work on it until I figure out why it seems wrong and what would be a better way to express the actual...
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Article 5
For a guy who likes to write, I am probably not a lot better about writing docs than most other developers. We’re supposed to leave a good trail behind us, but I’ve only managed to do that in certain...
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It would be better if journalists did not gravitate to a Facebook-owned Twitter clone. #
View ArticleIdeas for Reading Lists
A reading list is a list of feeds you can subscribe to.# The author of the list can add or remove feeds. When they do, people who subscribe to the list are subscribed to the new feeds and unsubbed...
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It’s good that people are thinking of leaving Substack. I didn’t like what they were doing because they were yet another place that requires you to use their editor to publish through their platform,...
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Fixed a bug in news.scripting.com that caused it to display only the All tab, leaving the other tabs inaccessible. Glad to get it fixed now and sorry for the breakage. Please keep the error reports...
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My night at the Dean campaign
I’d love to tell you a story about the time I had the authority to post to the Dean campaign home page, and they deleted a post I wrote on the night of the famous Dean Scream that might have saved the...
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People are trying to figure out the answer to Substack. The answer isn’t that people should run their own servers or buy their own domains. You don’t have to buy a bus to take a bus to work, you can...
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Twitter has yet to realize its potential as a coral reef. The idea was lovely, they had solved two important problems, identity and world-scale publishing. It took years to get there, but they did...
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I’ve been listening to the Grateful Dead today. Today my most favorite Dead song is Ripple. I love the bass beat, and the simple lyric. A wonderful sing-along. Let there be songs to fill the air. A...
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It makes sense that AI is coming into existence at the time the human species, and most living things on the planet, appear about to cease to exist. It’s possible that we are just building our...
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With mystique of Substack in decline, now — if we had a proper identity system with storage, we could make it easy for people to hook their world up to email, ie newsletters, and preserve choice, and...
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Another Dead song that must’ve been fun to sing. “Stephen would answer if he only knew how.” #
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Tiny little text boxes
This is a tiny little text box. My goal is to eradicate these beasts.#
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