One Man's notebook this week.
Interesting to see Press Gazette doing a "return to the office" survey of journalism workplaces - using Substack.
But it requires you to have a Substack login to take it.
I did my paternal duty and produced a stack of pancakes for my offspring to celebrate Shrove Tuesday.
This is just awesome:
A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our solar system’s gas giant is drifting through the cosmos around 20 light-years from Earth.
Excited to see, via @manton, that @tapbots@tapbots.social have a new Bluesky app coming:
I can't wait.
Ryan Sholin is sticking with WordPress — but leaving behind Automatic hosting and services.
Seems a sensible response to the recent behaviour of the Automattic CEO.
I found myself wondering what had happened to Kevin Rose, of Digg / Diggnation fame nearly two decades ago.
Turns out… he's working on bringing DIgg back.
And Diggnation is already back. We're in the Web 2.0 nostalgia phase, aren't we?
This doesn’t fill me with hope for the future of Bond: Inside Amazon’s 007 Takeover.
Maybe Amazon just paid an awful lot of money for something that’s had its day.
One of the major societal advances of my time on this planet is how much more seriously we take mental health these days. We’ve reshaped the world faster than our brains can evolve to cope, and that has consequences.
The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied:
The fediverse is a jailbreak. It’s not a product, not a single platform, it’s not something you can buy stock in or use to enrich yourself at the cost of our shared humanity. It’s a network of independent, interconnected social platforms, all running on open protocols like ActivityPub. It’s an ecosystem where you - not some incellionaire obsessed with eugenics - own your digital identity. Where your social graph belongs to you, not an algorithm’s shifting fucking whims.
Hmm. I can’t figure out how Micro Social’s link post format works. I can see it in the settings, but can’t figure out how to invoke it when posting.