Box? What box?
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🔗 Micro Monday is back (after a ’short’ pause.)
I guess in the overall scheme of the cosmos sure - ‘short’ works 😉
A great way of showcasing this little corner of the internet - still sitting in my Overcast feed - despite the passing of 4 years.
I knew it would comeback. One day.
It has.
🔗 Nudge or Sludge? — Gapingvoid
Want to know what a company actually believes? Skip their core values page. Try to cancel something.
Apple likes to say that music is part of its DNA. I suggest they schedule some genetic counselling.
I agree, though I have never managed to articulate the prescription so succinctly.
Please enjoy: 🔗 sadlittlebitchwithnofriends.com
🔗🕋 Structured Thought is catching on
This one from Evan Shapiro - who after producing 6 annual flat files of - well to be honest - interesting - but not very useful insights into the media landscape has just outdone himself.
Scott Brinker should do the same - similar idea in a different space - but 🔗 this one has been going now for 15 years!
‘Content’ is homogenous undifferentiated fodder that is poured into silos with pricing you would expect from any interchangeable commodity .. if that describes your writing, it might explain why nobody values it.
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Wise people are already aware and can predict these warnings …
🔗 YouTube Moves to Ban Nerd Reich Podcast
That said - where could you go to build a video following not called YouTube?
Meanwhile, so far, 🔗 the channel remains
Thought I’d take a look at Plume. Some shenanigans to get my blog to approve Plume - or the other way round - but twe got there - and this is my first post. Lets see where this goes.
Email was supposed to be an open, decentralized protocol. Instead, a handful of monopolies have effectively privatized deliverability: they decide whose mail is trustworthy, whose isn’t, and independent servers are guilty until proven innocent.
🔗 Why I left Mastodon - Justin Pot
.. or just use Micro.Blog
I just looked at: valid.rss.chat for john.philpin.com - and no dice …
Turns out that my blog isn’t ‘malformed’, it is because Micro.blog’s RSS feed output does not currently conform completely to the RSS.chat interoperability profile.
I can wait.
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If I include an URl an image might appear. If I add just an image it doesn't.
Expected behaviour?
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.. an old drum of mine.