Scripting News: Saturday, July 1, 2023

Saturday, July 1, 2023

Our challenge is to make sure the really interesting stuff happens on the open web, outside the silos. If that happens we can go on. Otherwise we go right back to where we were when Twitter and Facebook dominated. Not a good place. 17 years of stagnation. #

As with most online services, there's a virtually impenetrable wall between users and the people who run Bluesky. Has to be that way. There are hundreds of thousands of us, maybe tens of them. They're having trouble keeping the system running. As I dig in more on Bluesky, not because I'm getting married to the platform, btw -- more friends reach out and ask for help getting an invite code. It isn't about Bluesky though, it's just that we got the feeds up there first, so there's a way I can build. Ultimately my goal is to build a layer on top of all the social nets I can, so it doesn't matter which service you use, the stuff I create can make it to you and will. I used to write about "when a big tree falls it creates room for new growth." I wrote that about Jerry Garcia. And it's equally true about Twitter. As they vacate, and get smaller and more focused, I believe understandably, the places they vacate once again become interesting places to develop. I can't miss an opportunities like these. #

1995: "Like the big tree that fell last March, the death of a huge human being like Jerry Garcia frees up a huge amount of space. Once there was a tree, now there are seedlings. After the sadness, there will be huge creativity."#

There is an RSS feed for the Bluesky art channel. I'm seeing if I can put together a nice way to view the art w/o being a Bluesky member. #

I found and documented a problem with inline images from Drummer as displayed in FeedLand. I believe the problem has been there since we switched to email-based identity a few months back. As a result today's post with an inline image works. #

If a bear tweets in the woods can anyone hear it?#

Welcome to July. Here's the June OPML archive. #

A missing web standard#

How the web should work:#

To ChatGPT -- list ten great songs by The Who.#
To ChatGPT -- send that list to Amazon Music.#
To Amazon Music -- play the songs ChatGPT sent.#

Not a technological problem, it's a standards problem. Easily solved by the elusive "working together."#

Smoky mountain#

Smoke from Canadian fires is back. Not as bad as last month. #

Linkblog items for the day.

Long before Alan Arkin was in Little Miss Sunshine he starred in Catch-22. youtube.com

Doc's blog is back and a new-old address. searls.com

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