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👁️ If you are an organisation or person that seeks to widen your audience - why would you block RSS❓Limiting what you put in the feed .. I understand … but completely blocking I do not. Thoughts from the cognoscenti welcome.

🔗 The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot – Doc Searls Weblog

RSS—really simple syndication—gives all of us scale. This is, as Kurt Vonnegut once said, a miracle on the order of loaves and fish. It’s foundational.

👁️🚧 Experiment.

👁️🏢 🔗 MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution

A parody I believe - but just like with satire - I have this nervous feeling that parody might not be able to keep up with reality.

👁️🏢 🔗 MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution

A parody I believe - but just like with satire - I have this nervous feeling that parody might not be able to keep up with reality.

🏢 Clever image included in this LinkedIN 🔗 post.

My comment:

The only change to the image I would make is to put the rust bucket at the back … to extend your metaphor how many corporate drivers look back … they have declared their shiny new strategy and off they go .. without a clue that the organisation behind them is not what they think it is.

👁️ A couple of YouTube Shorts

📼🔗 Iran in a nutshell 😂

📼🔗 A VERY different kind of drum solo 🤯 - take that 📼🔗 El Estepario Siberiano though to be fair - still 🤯.

👁️ I remember when the ‘people line item’ was the largest on a typical PandL.

AI … “Hold my beer” …

🔗 Charted: Compute Costs More Than Talent in AI

💬 🔗 Going Electric

Which is why we all, as people who design culture whether we realize it or not, need to keep thinking about where we’ve been, where we’re going, and perhaps most importantly, how not to get too comfortable with where we currently are. 

MG Siegler: “Search or Ask”. Why on Earth would these be two different options?

Because they are. Search for ‘Aphantasia’ is a very different request to asking about ‘Aphantasia’.

In the old world - we had dictionaries and encyclopaedias. In the new world - we have search and ask.

Siri pops out of the Dynamic Island with a prompt: “Search or Ask”. Why on Earth would these be two different options? I assume to replace Spotlight, but it’s 2026, the system should just be smart enough to do that initial routing for you.

🔗 Jensen Roars

🖥️🍎 From history …

🔗 No one is listening to Steve Jobs’s advice about the EU Digital ID Wallet

🖥️ This would go a long way towards solving a lot of the challenges that the non tech world faces with the tech that the tech world delivers …

🔗 Try it in the Car

The collective we that make software don’t seem to check these things anymore, and it shows. Try your software in the world sometime: borrow a friend’s old tablet, go to the library and use the computer there, and give yourself a deadline to finish your task and consequences if you fail. You might be surprised how many problems are made obvious by the experience.

💬 Matthew Lyon

Thank you sir.