BlogFlock‘Renaming Lake Ontario’ has the form of a classic mafia loyalty test. The Don sets an absurd, demeaning small task, to learn who’ll accept the subsequent steps. Google keeps passing. They don’t know their boundaries, which for a leading map-making company is ironic.
#Tech #TechEthics #Cartography
The consistently inspiring online writer Brennan Brown ‘confesses’ to being a compulsive writer.
“Twenty sheets a day, or 2,000 words, or one essay every single day for eleven straight years… I don’t know if any of it is good, in the way Tellado’s editors meant good or the way Cervantes…
Thinking about the late Yayoi Kusama today. We remembered our visit to the art gallery in her home town of Matsumoto where we were moved to tears.
#YayoiKusama #JapaneseArt
The Mulai, Munir Hachemi, tr. Julia Sanches (Fitzcarraldo Editions 978-1804272732, June 2026; Coach House Books 978-1-55245-519-7, July 2026).
I came across The Mulai by Spanish author Munir Hachemi because it was the pick for August’s Indieweb Book Club, and I’m happy I did.
This is the kind…
As Jim Mitchell says, Indieweb is punk, and clearly I like spinning my own threads, but I do have a question: Since you still need to rent a domain name to get on the Web, isn’t there something more indie, like hosting your own server on a mesh network?…
Watched: The Invite 🍿very funny and quite poignant, with some great performances. I’m now keen to see the Spanish original.
Is your note collection making or unmaking the world? A reflection on institutional collecting, personal note archives, and why output matters more than input.
#Zettelkasten #Writing #NoteTaking #PKM #Blogging
“The British Museum is not a good thing in and of itself. It is good only to the extent that its influence in the world is for the good. The collection is a starting point, an opportunity, an instrument. Will the museum use it to influence the future of the…
Dave Winer has said WordPress really needs a simple, normal writing interface and I couldn’t agree more. We’re hardly alone and it turns out they’ve been listening.
