David Brooks just said it …. the world IRL is nothing to do with the Twitter world. (I paraphrase).


Is blot.im the best approach to what seems to be a simple solution? Who else?


Listened to two podcasts today about the Apple education stuff earlier this week … one was a couple or tech dudes who seemed to understand the big Apple education picture … the other was a couple of tech dudes that didn’t.

Key point / not the device / is the eco system.


Yesterday Stowe Boyd asked what we think about Twitter’s 280 character limit.

Today his Work Futures Blog, includes a call out to yours truly promoting Micro.Blog - scroll down to ‘On Microblogging’, and I hope by then he will have corrected the spelling of my name 😊


European Commission Says It Will Cancel All 300,000 UK-Owned .EU Domains

… so .EU means the political bureaucracy of ‘EU’ - not Europe … wondering how many EU domains are owned in Norway and Switzerland.


Uber Settles With Family of Woman Killed By Self-Driving Car, Avoids Lawsuit

How long before we know how many dollars were needed to buy their silence - and avoid one of those pesky court appearances that Uber keeps finding itself in?



Russia expels diplomats in tit-for-tat action over Salisbury attack

I know you are - but what am I?


Axios reporting …

U.S. ambassador to Israel: If Abbas won’t negotiate, someone else will

Regime change anyone?


Can’t help but wonder where the fanning of this particular flame is coming from.

Just the latest example of the ‘establishment’ gunning for Corbyn?

I am not close enough - all comments welcome.



Grindr exposes location of 3 million daily users

… no words - except a reminder that anything you have out there has already been ripped off and is stored in a criminal’s data lake … so you can ignore this.


Has it really come to this?

”A new startup wants to be the future of private space. Are they onto something?”


The Lost Tradition of Playing Ball in Church to Celebrate Easter

… time to revisit my ‘Mysteries of Chartres Cathedral’ books


Still Waiting ….. sigh


Walmart in early talks to buy Humana

I guess CVS buying Aetna started a trend!

Of course nobody seems to be buying the hospitals and medical practices where the work is done … just the Insurance companies where the money is made.

OR MAYBE NOT


I know I posted this just now - but I liked the @gruber summary …

”In other words, Firefox is now treating Facebook as malware that you need to be protected from.”

Mozilla’s Facebook Container Extension


Now we’re talking

New Firefox Extension Builds a Wall Around Facebook


US visa applications may soon require five years of social media info …. of course they will …. wonder what they say if you haven’t got any?


Jeremy Cherfas provides a users perspective on Indieweb … nicely made points, like …

If someone were able to create a kind of umbrella that took your money, made IndieWeb tools available and shared your money with the people who built the tools

Spotify for Indieweb?