This looks worth a watch:

Not gonna lie, it sometimes righteously pisses me off that journalism was going in exactly the right direction with community/audience work 15 years ago — and then we got distracted by Facebook and Google.

Is it too late to change course?

Finally had a much-needed trim.

Adam Tinworth with long, unkempt hair is wearing a hoodie and jacket, standing in front of a brick wall with a cloudy sky above.Adam Tinworth with neatly cut gray hair is outside in front of trees and parked cars, wearing a dark jacket and a hoodie.

Y’know, I’m beginning to suspect that it might have been Agatha all along.

A good rule to keep online debate constructive is “play the ball, not the man”. If you attack the poster, not the ideas, you’re playing the man.

Mullenweg’s response to DHH is pure playing the man, not the ball.

This is the problem with AI:

  • “AI can help you create this” is a successful marketing message
  • “This was created with AI!” isn’t

Far more people want to create with AI than want to consume the results.

The growing tsunami of AI slop is going to force us towards a new wave of trusted curator.

Optimistic? Perhaps. Idealistic? Certainly.

But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take this moment of opportunity and need and do something with it.

Set up author attribution on Mastodon on my Ghost blogs, based on this handy guide.

It’s basically just setting up the meta tag using Ghost’s Code Injection settings, and then adding the domains in Mastodon.

Now, this is what Sunday evenings are for: a hundred-odd Kathys dancing to Wuthering Heights.

Oh, yes.

Hey, random guy on Threads. I’ve only been managing large scale blog platform installs on and off for two decades now. I really need you to come and lecture me on how I should chose a platform.