Scripting News: Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Today Automattic announced that they're converting Tumblr, which they acquired in 2019, to run on WordPress as its foundation. This could get a simple colorful user-friendly interface for WordPress, something it's needed for a long time. WordPress does everything in its UI, Tumblr has its UI better organized for writers and more casual users. If they can move in this direction, it seems that WordPress could be large part of the emerging social web. #An idea for the Harris campaign. Let me buy some swag and have it sent to 10 of my best friends, esp ones who live in swing states. Plus you get the names and contact info for people at least one of your supporters thought would be a potential Harris voter. I'd send something less presumptuous like When We Fight We Win stickers. Another related idea, let me buy a whole set of promotional materials, kind of like the gift baskets they sell at Zabar's. #
Note to the Harris campaign: This Google search should return a complete list of your ads. Or a pointer to a site with a complete list of your ads. I want to make sure everyone who follows me sees every one of them! Let us help you help us.#
In the next scene, Wordle Kitty, lithe and slender, and fiercely cute, is doing an AMA on Reddit. #
One of the questions asks if Wordle Kitty knows anyone in the US Government. #
"I don't know anyone in the US Government," she said, "but I do know their kittens!" she concluded. #
This scene is shown on the front page of the NY Times along with the headline "Wordle Kitty is leading an insurrection in DC, other kittens are colluding!"#
Linkblog items for the day.
Trump Rally Shooter Had Interest in Violence Since 2019, FBI Analysis Shows. nytimes.com
Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick. techcrunch.com
Micro.Blog podcasting. chrisenns.com
The best political ad ever, and I wasn't even a Bernie supporter. I'd love to see a version of this ad for President Kamala. google.com
Automattic press release on the Tumblr switch to WordPress on the back end. automattic.com
Tesla's Supercharging network is still unavailable to non-Tesla EVs. techcrunch.com
Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress. techcrunch.com
Chuck Schumer outlines 2025 agenda if Democrats sweep, eying filibuster changes. nbcnews.com
Help Democrats hold the Senate and win back the House by supporting these 6 Senate and 29 House races. dferlist.org
Believe it or not, there was a time when it was controversial to think that the web would be two-way, meaning that normal people would be able to publish. Here's the outline of a speech I gave in Y2K at an XML conference in San Jose. scripting.com
Get set for the beatification of the original computer mouse. newatlas.com
Note to the Harris campaign: This Google search should return a complete list of your ads. Or a pointer to a site with a complete list of your ads. I want to make sure everyone who follows me sees every one of them! Let us help you help us. google.com
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