Good, thoughtful piece from Tracy Durnell about some of the choices she makes to blog. The comment about bits of personal life being interesting, while to much can be, er, too much, is encouraging
Very thoughtful piece from James G., examining his loneliness and, more to the point, how he successfully overcoming some of the patterns of behaviour developed over the past three years. Highly commendable on all fronts.
Interesting to read Ryan’s thoughts about being Not That Online and whether that affects the incredibly handy tools he makes for others. Maybe I’m overthinking my own dilemmas.
See, this is the kind of thing I'm talking about: "kept me listening despite zero interest in the subject," said someone about the latest episode of Eat This Podcast, What Price Chicken Wings.
Never Have I
1) Had a MySpace account
2) Had an AOL email address
So, that's twice as many as Tim Prebble, where I found the original. But is that twice as good or twice as bad?
@friedrichlongin Another fascinating and informative thread that will presumably be lost if Twitter does eventually implode completely. Where is the backup? Why go to all this trouble only to be beholden to an autocrat's whim?
So, my online friend Jason has brought a new puppy into his life, and she does look very good. I feel the pull too.
Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
If Ben Werdmuller is wondering about the look of his front page, maybe that means that @WithKnown will get a template system that mere mortals can understand ... but probaby not.
Whatever was wrong, it is right again. Thank you, mysterious gods of the internet.