Any body heard of Robert David Steele / ITNJ

(specifically not linking)



Contract for the Web

… a global plan of action to make our online world safe and empowering for everyone.

… apparently. What do you all think?


”People lack instruments of personal agency online."

Doc Searls



Cows don’t have thumbs, Democrat says in Devin Nunes’ lawsuit

.. the fact that this is even a law suit is so stupid - interesting that they never EVER take on Colbert et al …


Being rich means that you don’t typically get to mix with poor people.

BOOYA … another MicroBlogVember double!


Being poor means that you don’t typically get to mix with rich people.

BOOYA … another MicroBlogVember double!


🤯 Boundaries


Op-ed: Navy corruption and the Gallagher case

Well now … he does come from a unique position … but if half of what he wrote is true ….


🪦 Clive James Dies At 80

… sad day.

Later : particularly when you realize that Jonathan Miller passed the same day.




Trying out Inoreader after @manton shout out … would be cool if you could just add a mb or twitter handle and the app created feed automatically



Anyone have any good up to draw links about why it is ok to leave your iPhone plugged into power … and why that doesn’t destroy the battery / phone?


Uber loses London licence after TfL finds drivers faked identity

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of chaps.

My domain ‘taxichronicles’ is due for renewal … no need to renew now.

One final post to my taxi chronicle twitter account … sense is finally prevailing.


Just got this link from a ‘friend’

I think I just crossed them off my party list.


Trust and reputation have been on my mind a lot recently.

Both are increasingly important to people, yet the logic, measures and metrics behind the corporate owned, isolated and anonymous silos are driven by secret algorithms.

Open protocols need to replace closed platforms.

More Gaping Void


If what you do can be done by a robot, an AI, a remote, lower paid, less skilled person … then it’s time to think about what you should be doing … because it’s not going to be that job for much longer.