Scripting News: Sunday, June 28, 2026
Sunday, June 28, 2026 To read scripting.com you need a browser that supports HTTP . # Why email newsletters made sense. Email has no character limits, can represent bold and italic, links, titles, enclosures, basically most features of the web , and social media places limits on what writers can write. That's where the literate social web went, and the bloggers too. Like how birds are really dinosaurs. # If you're working on a social web app that supports inbound and outbound RSS , I'd like to help, so our products can interop beautifully. That's the reason I'm doing this work, to establish a baseline for interop in the social web. RSS is the obvious candidate. If we didn't have it, we'd have to invent it. I'd much prefer doing the work openly, so if you can, write a post and send me a link. I think it's time for us to go back to the way we built network systems before Google and the VCs took over. Put up an app...