Scripting News: The web crashes

Monday October 13, 2025; 11:35 AM EDT

Let's remember how the web could have worked.#
The ideal is to write in our blog space, and publish everywhere.#
That's what we have been trying to do since Twitter came along. #
Write on your main blog, cross-post everywhere it belongs. #
This could have worked, and it still can. #
But it can't work until we get agreement on what text is. This will be much-discussed at WordCamp Canada this week, based on what WordPress is doing and what Evan Prodromou will speak about and of course what I am speaking about.#
Getting back on track is as simple as agreeing what text is on the web. For that we have two very good models: HTML and Markdown. #
Here's my slide.#

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