It's even worse than it appears..
Thursday, February 27, 2025
WordLand is simply an editor for writers who publish to WordPress. #
I'm also interested in social networks and RSS and have written a lot about that in the context of WordLand, because it generates RSS, it can connect to any app that understands RSS. But don't get confused that WordLand is somehow a twitter-like silo. There are already too many of those. I want something much simpler and I believe more useful and less spammy and abusive -- a social network built around RSS. #
Me at 22 in Madison#
  • Me as a grad student at UW-Madison in 1977 or so, programming on a Unix system, probably working on my first outliner. #
  • Note that the terminal I was using had uppercase and lowercase letters. This was a big innovation! #
  • I was using a PDP-11/45 to write in C. #
  • See the comment thread from 2014 on Facebook.#
  • I lived in a big house with 10 roommates. And as weird as it must seem from the point of view of 2025, I was the only one who used a computer. I would tell them all the time that we'd all use computers someday. They rolled their eyes and smiled. "There goes Dave again." The reason I was so sure was email and writing tools. #
  • Me at 22 in Madison. My mother, Dr Eve Winer, took this picture.#

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Last update: Thursday February 27, 2025; 12:51 PM EST.

You know those obnoxious sites that pop up dialogs when they think you're about to leave, asking you to subscribe to their email newsletter? Well that won't do for Scripting News readers who are a discerning lot, very loyal, but that wouldn't last long if I did rude stuff like that. So here I am at the bottom of the page quietly encouraging you to sign up for the nightly email. It's got everything from the previous day on Scripting, plus the contents of the linkblog and who knows what else we'll get in there. People really love it. I wish I had done it sooner. And every email has an unsub link so if you want to get out, you can, easily -- no questions asked, and no follow-ups. Go ahead and do it, you won't be sorry! :-)