Scripting News: Sunday, September 24, 2023
So far I've asked people who I think of as Friends of Local News to also invest in an EZ-Pass for News and help sources going directly to users of news. We have to rebuild the open web as much as we need to rebuild local journalism. It's very much the same kind of thing. All our news flows will soon be going through ten servers. This is by design. It works a lot better for Google if they only have to keep their eye on Apple, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon and a few others. #I watched Barbie and it was so bad. Made my stomach ache. The movie is an ad for products you can buy on Amazon. The ultimate of exploitation. It got an 80 on Metacritic. What is wrong with everyone! It was probably the worst movie ever made.#
If you want to make a difference in tech you have to do things normal people would think are too radical. It might be the biggest hurdle to get over. You think shit, it's probably not going to work either way, so I'll just do it that way that might work. #
Note I said "make a difference" not "succeed" because then we have to discuss what success means. #
But first a question -- if it's possible to travel back in time, in the future, why haven't we been visited by time travelers already? Of course maybe we have been, but for some reason they're not visible to us, they're in another dimension or something like that. #
But assuming we could experience their presence if they were here, maybe it's because in order for a time traveler to land here, we need to have a certain technology that we don't yet have, that acts as a receiver of sorts. #
And the day when that receiver is invented, perhaps unknowingly to the inventor, all of a sudden their house or apartment turns into a religious and historic shrine, a Disneyland or Fort Sumter of time travel. The place is instantly transformed into Wailing Wall, Ground Zero, or Mount Rushmore. #
I imagine there is already a science fiction book based on this premise. #
Linkblog items for the day.
Paul Simon Reveals How He Copes With Hearing Loss. aarp.org
We have to rebuild the open web as much as we need to rebuild local journalism. scripting.com
In the late 90s and into the 00s, we needed the term Sources Go Direct to focus our reporter friends on the role bloggers were playing. They jumped to the conclusion that we were trying to be reporters. Most of us were not. scripting.com
The Media Is Giving Us 2016 Flashbacks. vanityfair.com
The WordPress Openverse Project. neliosoftware.com
Time travel theory. scripting.com
A suggestion to friends investing in local news, it might be good to invest also in giving the sources of news better means to reach users of news. There's more to news than intermediaries. scripting.com
I watched Barbie and my god what an AWFUL travesty of a plot and waste of talent. Made my stomach ache. A freaking commercial. Got an 80 on Metacritic. What is wrong with everyone! It was probably the worst movie ever made. metacritic.com
Text editing on mobile devices isn't OK. jenson.org
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