🍻🍺 Ed’s Beer Site: Horror in Hackney Wick
Queuing at the bar for a beer - has the world gone mad?
The Web Site Culling Continues
Let 5 domains go in the past three weeks. Now moving posts at .vision to .business
Feeling good.
The Seven Laws of Identity
Introduced in 2004 by Kim Cameron
Not exactly an 'update' from Doc Searls, but definitely a link with reading, remembering Kim who passed at the end of last year.
I like this one a lot more.
What do you think this introduction to a ‘block chain focus group’ says about the group?
“The Cyber Cosmos world is nothing like the dreary, male-focused way we traditionally think of blockchain and cryptocurrency.”
Just discovered that the ‘Marie Celeste’ was originally called ‘Amazon’ - I wonder if the same fate awaits?
Paging all Literal users.
Their Goodreads import has just been improved to pick up stragglers that it may have missed when you did the original import.
It worked for me.
Ten books that did not originally come across - are now safely tucked away in the literal library.
Manhattan D.A. will move to exonerate two men convicted of killing Malcolm X. (Apple)
“Prosecutors and law enforcement agencies withheld key evidence that, had it been turned over, would likely have led to the pair’s acquittal.”
“The cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”
💬 Federico Fellini
“Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.”
💬 Martin Scorsese
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”There behind a glass
Stands a real blade of grass
Be careful as you pass
Move along! Move along”
A bridge that only connects to land at one end.
OK ⦠a pier.
One Fact With Two Opposing Outcomes
“Today we’re excited to roll out the latest feature on Unsplash… you can now see your image download history making it super easy to re-visit and re-download any image.”
… wrote Unsplash.
Annoying that my download history only goes back 2 days.
that said,
MASSIVE KUDOS that my download history only goes back 2 days.
On the face of it they don’t seem to have been storing that information without telling me.
“my own theory was that, again, you couldn’t really write enough by yourself to justify $5 or $10 a month when the Economist or New Yorker paywall cost much the same for vastly more.”
💬 Benedict Evans
Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website
@gruber delivers FBI Claim Chowder
I came across Flatfile last year. Airtable hit my radar earlier this year. Now I’ve found Rows.
There is overlap and differences. Do you have a preference? Which - and why?
“In tech we don’t stand on the shoulders of giants, we stand on their toes.”
💬 Dave Winer
