Came across a blog post from John Scalzi this morning, advising that WordPress had informed him that his blog's sidebar Twitter feed would stop working soon. I haven't heard anything from WordPress about my own sidebar feed, but if it's going to stop working for VIP customers like Scalzi, I can't imagine it will be … Continue reading Twitter sidebar going away?
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Mastodon: an update
Thought I'd give an update on my experience with Mastodon. There have been few more lessons learned since the first post. On Saturday, after thinking about it for several days, I decided I needed to try a new server. Many of the servers in the Mastodon space are experiencing growing pains due to the influx … Continue reading Mastodon: an update
The Mastodon experience at one week
If you've been following the news, you know that Elon Musk bought Twitter, taking over control a couple of weeks ago and immediately making changes. Initially most of the discussion was about making people pay for verification checkmarks, which I couldn't care less about. But in recent days the discussion has reportedly widened to include … Continue reading The Mastodon experience at one week
What do you use to keep track of the blogs and sites that you follow?
I'm a big user of RSS feeds, and used to pretty much live in Google Reader before Google killed it. In the months after GR was shut down, I tried a number of different RSS reading services including Feedly, AOL, Digg, and many others including client based products. I settled fairly early on Feedly, although it … Continue reading What do you use to keep track of the blogs and sites that you follow?
Why Life Does Not Really Exist | Brainwaves, Scientific American Blog Network
Why is defining life so frustratingly difficult? Why have scientists and philosophers failed for centuries to find a specific physical property or set of properties that clearly separates the living from the inanimate? Because such a property does not exist. Life is a concept that we invented. On the most fundamental level, all matter that … Continue reading Why Life Does Not Really Exist | Brainwaves, Scientific American Blog Network
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