Scripting News: Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Tuesday, December 24, 2024 Talking with a friend about the listening lists idea and realized if it takes off it will turn podcasting into its own loosely-coupled social network. Really low tech, like the web. And not possible for one company to control. All it will take is one popular podcast client to get the pump primed . The second and third apps should be much easier to convince. This is how it worked with podcasting. Steady mission broadcasting, keep beating the drum, and if it's the right idea and when it's the right time, eventually, it happens. It will be that way too for this layer of the network, but at this time I don't own a podcast client, and that's the most basic ingredient in this bootstrap, so we wait, and keep beating the drum. # Another idea that we continued to push in 2024 is textcasting . It was what I needed to build WordLand , it defines its objective, to form an open social web with all the basic features writers need. Titles, ...