An online notebook
This from Dai Vaughan is really excellent on how technology failures keep damaging people’s lives, and how frustrating it is that the answers to this problem are well known, but unevenly implemented. Mike Bracken’s take on Horizon. Still noodling on what to do with the newsletter. Feels increasingly icky to keep using Substack but it … Keep reading
A slow start to the year, blogging wise, been getting other stuff up straight. So here’s a bunch of things I’ve spotted during the last few days or so… The delightful people at Lincoln Council are hiring a Web / Digital Officer. Lovely place to work on exciting local government things! The Disturbing Impact of … Keep reading
Substack’s Nazi problem seems to be getting a lot of attention at the moment. It’s a weird one for me, because I just don’t see it. It was a bit like that for me on Twitter as well, lots of people would say how toxic it was, but that just wasn’t my experience. Doesn’t mean … Keep reading
Am playing around a bit with Feedland, Dave Winer’s newish RSS aggregating thing. I like how it is all public, so anyone can see the feeds I subscribe to and what is in them. Am enjoying the desktop app feel of NetNewsWire for now, so don’t think I will be switching, but it’s fun to … Keep reading
Bit of an old chestnut, this, that I referred to in another post and I have been mulling on for a while. User feels a bit techie, a bit too transactional, and sometimes like somebody who indulges in illicit substances. However it is delightfully generic. Customers tend to have somewhere else to go, unlike many … Keep reading