It's even worse than it appears..
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Every Fourth of July the song of the day is the US Blues, the hippie anthem of love for the USA. Wave that flag, wave it high and wide! #
Journalism should care about Google breaking the open web as much as they care about Musk breaking Twitter because, in capitalism, Musk has the right to break Twitter, he owns it, but Google doesn’t own the web. I think the reason journalism will report on Musk breaking Twitter and not Google breaking the web is that they need a person to report on, and Google has never really had a personality. The two founders are quiet, and I don't think I've ever heard the current CEO speak a word. So they're unreportable?#
I was wondering if the W3C feed validator has an API. I'd like to submit my feed to it periodically to keep track of changes.#
Frum's take on Twitter sounds right. "Twitter itself may eke out a ghostly existence for a long time, like the thing that calls itself 'Newsweek.'"#
Poll: Will you create an account on Facebook's new Twitter clone?#
This graph illustrates perfectly why it was time to upgrade the server FeedLand and Drummer run on.#
Facebook's new social net#
  • We now know that Facebook's new social network, Threads, will be available to the public on Thursday. The day after tomorrow. #
  • There's lots of discourse on the net about What's To Be Done about this big event. Based on decades of experience with such launches, here's what I say.#
    • No matter what we do right now it'll probably have no effect on the Facebook rollout. #
    • It's better to listen, study and learn, size up the product. We don't know what it is. Wait till we find out. #
    • Call them Facebook, not Meta. They're trying to run away from their legacy, but it's very relevant. People should know it's coming from Facebook not "Meta." When I see Meta my mind reads "Mets."#
    • After the dust has settled, what if anything should be done may be more apparent.#
    • Remember, Bigco's launch with big thunder but the products often flop. Don't get sucked into the hype. #
    • Whatever you say or do now, viewed from a few weeks from now, will seem silly and over-reactive. Keep on truckin. #
    • Let's study the product, discover what can be done with its APIs (assuming it has some) and keep an open mind. It's possible that some good can come from this. #
    • Don't depend on journalists to study it. They tend to report on the press releases, and amp up the fear. #
    • First and foremost -- don't panic. 😄#

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