Scripting News: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
The Guardian is the coolest news org, paywall-wise. Why don't they innovate, and create a EZ-Pass for news, and run it for other high quality, reader centered pubs. We pay $1 per article read. That's how I as a reader want to do it. I don't like subscriptions.#
I found out recently that my blog is in of the default startup set for NetNewsWire. What an honor to be included. Thanks Brent! ;-)#
Bluesky has a new CEO, Toni Schneider former CEO of Automattic. I have known Toni for many years, dating back to his startup, Oddpost, that I praised on my blog, and his partner was then quoted in Wired saying Scripting News is media. That meant a lot to me at the time, and it was true. I was very proud that I had played a small part in their success. #- I had a virtual meeting with Toni a couple of years ago about their identity product, then in development, urging them to include storage in it, but as far as I know that didn't happen. #
- Toni believes that Bluesky is a distributed social media app, but I've been all around this, wrote some software for their protocol to see if I was missing something, and concluded that it's typical tech industry hype, there's no reality to the claim. They're selling something they don't have, and I don't think they can do it and preserve the feature set of their product. #
- Here's a search for Bluesky on my blog. You can see that I have taken a great interest in the product. #
- Scripting News unfortunately is not as influential as it once was when I praised Oddpost, but I think this advice is equally valuable as it was in 2002. I think the shortest path for Bluesky to achieve its vision is to hook up with WordPress, that would give us a path into it that is decentralized. If we ever talk about this, ironically, I will be selling Toni on his own product. #
Linkblog items for the day
Trump was hoping for an Iranian Delcy Rodríguez. Instead he may have produced an Iranian Kim Jong Un. theatlantic.com
Shop President Donald Trump's favorite Florsheim Oxford shoes. usatoday.com
Gracenote, metadata company, sues OpenAI for copyright infringement. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com
The Guardian is the coolest news org, paywall-wise. Why don't they innovate, and create a EZ-Pass for news, and run it for other high quality, reader centric pubs. We pay $1 per article read. That's how I as a reader want to do it. I don't like subscriptions. theguardian.com
Shots fired at US consulate in Canada in what police call 'national security incident.' theguardian.com
Richard Gingras: Understanding and addressing a broken democracy and a shattered press. substack.com
Most Voters Are Wary of AI. politicalwire.com
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