Scripting News: Thursday, March 6, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025 So proud -- Doc Searls wrote this beautiful blog post with WordLand. If I have my way blogging is going to come all the way back and then zooooom out from there. Still diggin! # Web isn't just a brand, it's also a noun and a verb. "I web you." # Tech and democracy # I found the TechDirt piece by Mike Masnick about being a democracy blog disturbing because imho it should have been about democracy at least since 2017, when it was clear that Twitter had just elected a president of the United States. That was a clear strong signal that tech and democracy were tightly connected. # At the time I tried to raise the alarm , in tech and in finance, that a Republican could buy Twitter for $12B, and that was a cheap price considering the value of the presidency in a tech entrepreneur's hands. # My experience in Silicon Valley goes back to the late 70s, so I have a pretty good understanding of the personality ...