Scripting News: Saturday, March 22, 2025
A funny thing. A few months back someone told me that I had been gone from the podcast world for too long for anyone to listen to me. I thought how weird, I didn't go anywhere at all, I stayed exactly where I was, all the time. Virtually every day. If people cared to know what I think they could have found out pretty quickly because I am of course an NBB. I talk about what I think all the time. (And besides, why do you care where you get ideas from, I don't.)#Anyway, the idea was about a feature for podcasting that would open up doors for influencers and ad hoc networks of podcasts, instead of a few dozen weak (imho) attempts to build synergy, I trust that invisible hand Darwinian ecosystem builds better networks, because they are real, not contrived. #
Give the people the tools and see what happens. #
Users and developers party together.#
That's the opposite of the "move fast and break things" approach to technology, instead it's "paving the cowpaths," the process that has always fascinated me and been the method to my madness. Make the tools, give them to the people and sit back and hope something happens. When it doesn't try to show the way. And try out lots of these kinds of ideas. #
This method really works, and it isn't destructive, it's totally constructive. (Actually it does destroy what was there before, but in a merciful way, they get a chance to jump on the train, even if they rarely do, but NPR got on early with podcasting, and the NYT with RSS.)#
PS: I did not invent "paving cowpaths" -- it's been around for a long time, like mythical man-month and the like. It's pretty much the same thing as bootstrapping, which I also advocate.#
Linkblog items for the day.
Why isn't the Democratic Party flooding the zone with rallies like this, everywhere. bsky.app
Stratechery Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company. stratechery.com
What Is It Like to Be on Ketamine? thecut.com
Kitty Dukakis, former first lady of Massachusetts, has died. wgbh.org
Reading this fresh post from Ken Smith, I thought a good slogan for Bernie's new party (maybe they should call it that) is Build Back Better, stolen from Biden. That's going to be a popular message because everyone is quickly figuring out that we're getting the shit kicked out of us, and there's a lot of rebuilding in our future no matter what. akakensmith.com
Trump's firings of military leaders pose a crucial question to service members of all ranks. theconversation.com
In December I wrote about "listening lists" for podcasts. I believe it's coming into fruition soon, from at least one major podcast vendor. It's not only going to be nice to have imho but it's something the open web does better than the podcast silos, that in itself is important. this.how
2009: Natural-born blogger. "NBBs go first. If there's an NBB around you don't have to wait for a volunteer." scripting.com
Newsom on the Podcast Train. wordpress.com
Utah GOP Reps. Maloy and Kennedy told to "Do your job" at a town hall. sltrib.com
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