Among the best reasons to own your own domain and host a web site is to be able experiment, acts that are verboten on your easy, slick, hosted spiffy site. I will take tinker-ability over ease any minute of the day. If you are unaware of the Small Web, maybe just stay that way. You […]
As Forrest Gump never said, “Momma told me life is like a box of yams…” Nope that does not work, just the morning brain on free association. For those not reading ariound here before, my love of taking and sharing photos is not centered in making money or getting anything from my photos, and this […]
I both wince and smile when I see those proclamations about the web [internet] being broken. I’d like to know the field data that is based upon. To say this confidently, someone would have to visited and explored every single corner of the web. I for one have been exploring for 2 plus decades and […]
Come sit around the campfire for more old web person stories. As it was when I landed on the web in 1993, I am always thinking about the making, the literal weaving as the master wrote, of the web. And how underneath it all, nearly always visible, if you can look, is a bunch of […]
You can’t click without hitting the proclamations of the web being dead/useless/broken/unusable. Why the web is bad? What happened to the web? And no shortage of Dead Internet Theories. Definitely the most palpable one to me is well enshrined as a word of the year, with Enshittification is so well explained by Cory Doctorow (I […]
To break my own languishing of writing here (to which nobody notices), I reach for the bloggers oldest topic, blogging about blogging. Right? And so I reach back, way back, to my own Pre-Cambrian blogging era, the first post, to which, true to form, I pun[t] on the descriptive title for what I think might […]
Just when one might think the glorious, joyful, unlimited potential of the internet has cratered to an ad-laden pool of machine generated goop, amazingness happens again. The odds of what I will lay out here seem improbable. Well, someone can likely do a back of the napkin estimate. While I have hung up efforts to […]
The web as whatever we thought we knew it is all going to poop, eh? I don’t disagree about the large parts of it most see on an every day basis. I do wonder though how much we can make these grand assumptions when so many un-explored bits and crevices exist out there that are […]
I was thinking of the times when I would, now totally sounding naively, exalt about the bigness of the internet which today, which we pursue trendingness to be seen, noticed, affirmed, liked and re-liked. Who wants to spout out and not be heard? I come to celebrate today the small, unnoticed. One of my weirdest […]
Be wary of nebulous titles as they forbode a blog post of meandering paths and uncertain destinations. As I look gleefully over his holiday break span full of plans to write all the posts rattling in my head and browser tabs left open for months, it too reminds me of this stack of unfinished intentions […]
