🖋️ LongForm
Want to reduce the noice and just focus on things with a little more meat - the this category is for you. Like so much on this site we have a ‘WIP’ as i take some out - and put some in - but safe for at least starting in 2026.
The ignorance in our world is extra-ordinary ...
When I first saw this reported on - Fusion.net - I assumed it was a piece of 'Onion' - but no - here is the Philadelphia News reporting how a Maths equation is 'frightening' - and 'terrorist-like' ..
the woman "thought I was a terrorist because I was writing strange things on a pad of paper. I laugh. I bring them back to the plane. I showed them my math."
A 1999 Summary
... not so much a bug report as a list of enhahncements ...
I have to post first - and then go back to add title, attachments etc - would be good to be able to do this all at once.
A simple way to allow links to pop up in new window - rather than in the space you are already working in
Tagging for rapid finding
A quick visual reference to quickly tell if your post is published or not.
Maybe I am missing it - but ability to embed video - not just have a link - if that is what enclosures are - not working for me.
I want to be able to repost someone else’s post - like as in Tumblr or on Wordpress
Easy sharing into other networks - and vice versa
How Long Does Uber Have ?
Now that outspoken critic of Uber - Sadiq Kahn is mayor of London - I wonder if he will do anything about them ... certainly Rachel Whetstone isn't as connected to him as the Cameroon (sic) / Boris cabal.
More About 1999
"Labour’s Ken Macintosh, who has held the Eastwood seat since 1999, in fact ended the night in third place, behind the Conservatives and the SNP."
Buckminster Fuller
You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Silicon Valley - Leaders Of The Pack ... Or Ice Pack ?
Posted this today across a couple of spaces : http://beyondbridges.net/2016/05/silicon-valley-laggard-best-workplace-practice/ - and depending on feedback - it might getter a wider publication next week.
Truth
Sometimes the simplest image conveys what we all feel - but we can’t QUITE encapsulate. Follow your passion is the ‘new meme’ .. and then there is this ...
UC Davis Innovation Week
There are some really clever ideas emerging from The UC Davis Innovation Week.
It's 1999 All Over Again - Follow Us
If you are interested in following the tweets of us 1999ers - pop over here
Euthanasia ...
I am waiting for the next big debate to be truly talked about .. open and honestly.
One Of Those Sharing Ideas Things
I am not sure if Dave's system is / can run some kind of aggregator or list of all of us who are running 1999 sites, but it did strike me that the nature of the people involved with this might be interesting to each other.
So, I took the liberty of adding those people who had already posted their 'first post here' on Google Docs - to a folder in my Feedly - which you can access here.
If this is useful - I will continue to add to that group as I become aware of other sites. On the flip side - that URL is in the public domain - and if you do not want to be listed there - let me know.
Letting me know is best done via 'replies' to this post.
Thankyou for you attention.
First Thoughts On 1999
First thing to point out ... I definitely am not a techy - but love what Dave Winer keeps on pushing with his work around the open web. That is why I signed on here and am loving what I am seeing.
I installed 1999 yesterday without a hitch. I have hit a couple of issues of Java exceptions that I have not reported - since I can't really get a repeatable case. The 'switch it off - switch it on' again solution has worked every time.
I love the live updating. Simple to use. As Mr Jobs used to say "It just works".
Seperately I am compiling a short list of nice to haves that I will post at sometime in the future - not yet though, I am still playing.
I hit a bug with RSS which I posted into Github - and Dave reponded VERY quickly - which in turn made me read the documentation. Sorry Dave. The documentation included this post. Duly read. Duly absorbed.
I think there is similar behavior with how 1999 works as with DayONE, of which I am a long time user. DayONE's recent changes cut off my ability to share from my personal journal into the big wide world. I wonder if there is synergy between them and this. Don't know.
Depite getting RSS recognized by IFTTT - thanks to reading Dave's documentation, I still haven't got the recipe working - it says it is working - but nothing is posting into the stream. Still thinking.
I also notice that I am not getting live updating on my blog of these posts. I have added the RSS widget on the menu bar to the left - and it has picked up the first few posts - but nothing since. If anyone is interested, it is running here on Beyond Bridges scroll all the way down to the bottom left headed 1999 Feed. None of this reported, since it still may be me - who knows. However, I did note that when I checked the feed at The W3C Feed Validation Service - it recognizes a valid feed - but at the same time lists a number of areas that it calls out under an initial statement
"This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations."
All that said ... I am loving this - very happy bunny.
Thankyou.