Wow — that’s a LOT of Bloody Mary I thought .. oh wait ‘OR’ … not ‘OF’.
Don’t worry about the effect on the environment .. all the passengers carbon offset their vacation by using cardboard straws in their cocktails.
Suggestions that Informatica to be bought my the increasingly wrongly named ‘Salesforce’
Meanwhile lie, over on another network, my response to some advice …
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Substack is a unified media ecosystem. It encompasses both publishing and conversation. This duality is important, because ….. ramble ramble ramble
.. Hamish McKenzie over on Substack but I liked the first part and racking my brains to try and recall where I’d seen that idea before …
Intermittently and seemingly for no apparent reason my mouse pointer gravitates to the top or side of the screen - push it back and up it moves again. I lift and bang it and that fixes it - as if there is fluff in there? But not as far as i can tell after blowing. Anyone else see this - have ideas - bad software somewhere?
' Don Snorleone ' … 😂😂😂😂😂
🎲 Surprise Me! is now the phrasing in my single post footer - replacing ‘Random’ .. seemed more in keeping with the tone that I am trying to achieve on this blog - not to mention that it is consistent with the other places I reference this functionality.
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It is lost in the mists of time but I seem to recall a post by @brentsimmons from years ago - maybe even last century? The advice was to reply to emails as a post, so that when a second email comes, you can modify the material on your blog and send the link. (I more than likely have over simplified, taken it out of context, changed the essence if not meaning / idea - but that’s what we do right? The point is that the core thinking has stuck with me … write once - use many.
It’s good advice and indeed many corporate processes follow this idea. Think help desk, somebody asks a gnarly question, it isn’t available in your ‘knowledge repository’, so you reply with original thought and then publish that answer into the repository so that anyone else who has the question can find the answer.
BUT - when it comes to the personal blog, even I - who has this ingrained in my brain, still doesn’t do this as routine and - even more frustrating - when i do .. it gets forgotten about over time because I don’t have a real system to manage such things - and why would I?
So it is about memory - but also I have found the Micro Blog Search-Space PlugIn by @sod absolutely excellent for unpacking such posts'.
All this to say that I have just put up a page on my blog that is the start of attempting to provide help to others that ask.
Enjoy.
🖇️ Getting Started With Your Own Micro Blog
Wait … ‘Eclectic Ink’ @pimoore ? Did I miss the announcement?
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Not a new one. Just stumbled across it in ‘the collection’. It is real - took it myself - in Burford.
I’m feeling a clean up coming on me …
I think I just used my new Random (Surprise Me) Link more times in the last 10 minutes than it has ever been used in total.
OH. Now that’s a neat idea. (The ‘random’ button between the previous and next)
Was I talking about stumbling across things? Don’t think so, but an example of just that from a few months ago. No words needed to explain the images. Just click through.
🔗 Weekend Reading — Never Again Is Now — Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)
It occurred to me watching a Martin Scorcese documentary about the life of George Harrison, how much people in music seek out opportunities to create with other musicians. In technology, it doesn’t happen, we don’t even look at each other’s software.
💬 Dave Winer
Long said that I speak three languages; English, Music and Math(s) .. sounds like @andysylvester is on a 🔗 similar track.
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I just sent this to Readdle.
I hit inbox zero and you invite me to share with x - as a Ukraine Company I am surprised that you would promote a space owned by someone who’s goal is to solve the war by handing Ukraine over to Russia.
If you must .. at least give your customers the chance to promote their success into a platform that we use or at least a free, fair, open platform - which that fiasco most certainly isn’t.
I am still running these words in my mind …
Starting right now we must invest time and resources to hone, sculpt and architect the six key skills will be essential in the future to complement machines, co-exist with change, and ensure continuous re-invention.
Three of these have to do with individual competence (Cognition, Creativity, Curiosity) and three how we connect with each other and the world outside our minds including new AI agents. (Collaborate, Communicate, Convince).
💬 Media Village