I must've written about how the second mover sets the standard, but Google can't find it. So I asked the chatbot we set up, and it worked. It found two great quotes from Hugh MacLeod and Phil Jones, and a reference to the interview I did with Robert X. Cringely. Fantastic. This is the future of writing. #If you're a developer who wants to create standards, you might check in with other people who have worked in the area, describe the problem, ask if they have ideas. I try to do that. Unfortunately the people mostly don't respond, but sometimes they do. It's how we avoid having two or more ways of doing exactly the same thing. And the second person is the one who has the power to set a standard, not the first. So it's the power move if your goal is really to try to set a standard. #
Have you ever noticed -- if you ask a programmer to do something and their first reaction is a vehement no way are we doing that then they come back a week later and they've implemented it. I learned never to take a hard no as a for-real no. Good developers keep coming back to the idea if it's interesting enough. Sometimes it ends up as disastrous as the programmer initially thought. I could tell you stories. But also sometimes it's how killer features get into products at the last minute. #
FeedLand tweak. Now when displaying a linkblog item, instead of (link) we say what domain the link goes to. That's how we do it in Radio3, and it seems that FeedLand could benefit from that approach. Here's a screen shot. #
BTW, I used the term Blue Sky starting in 1995 to describe huge chunks of open space full of potential for innovation. #
I'm having random problems accessing scripting.com today in Chrome on a Mac. It's just an S3 bucket, chosen so there would never be any difficulty getting through. I wonder if you all are experiencing this? The browser just sits there, wheel spinning. Eventually it sorts itself out, it seems. You can respond here. (Obviously if you see that, you're probably not having problems getting through, but maybe you did earlier.)#
Funny story. When I ask Alexa to play Here Come Those Tears Again by Jackson Brown, it plays the song, then plays it again, and again and so on. I guess it gets tripped up on the last word in the song name? The story of the song is quite moving. Background vocals by Bonnie Raitt. #
- Basic questions to ask of any would-be successor to Twitter.#
- Is there a character limit in Blue Sky?#
- Does it support simple styling: bold and italic.#
- Links?#
- Titles?#
- Can you edit posts?#
- Does it support enclosures, for podcasting?#
- How about two-way RSS, nice to have. Hook up to simple networks.#
- My criticisms of Blue Sky, having never tried it.#