The humble hyperlink, ever it be so unassuming humble. Click here! It’s an invention, a pending adventure, for me, a potential distraction of the better than the machinery of social media attention sucking. When you spot an interesting link in your info streams, do you quickly share, repost? Click that all so valuable and powerful […]
On the road to picking up the blog pace, I was tagged by Brian Bennett, and I will preface with the same thing about some dread of doing a blog version of a mail chain letter. But I follow Brian’s blog (old school style) and hey, what better blog topic is there? Why did you […]
Cut to the scene of “On the Bloggerfront” where in a taxi, a tired old blog post sits dejected next to its former friend, Google, looking smug and dapper in an overcoat: Google: Look, kid, I — how many readers you got, Slick? When you posted one hundred and sixty-eight times in a month you […]
Hey, it’s been a while. As if anyone but me noticed. But yikes, the blog-o-meter slowed down to 1 ppm. All the social media wrangling of “where to be” online, and maybe some forgetting (self-included) that the first stop is right at home, the front step. Blogging about blogging, blogging about not blogging, always works. […]
Before the rise of social media as the web’s public conversation space, where I felt it happened well, was across the comment space of blogs. As distributed as it was, it might have been a “distribuverse”- and was woven together by the use of hyperlinks and maybe trackback pings. Given the abuse of comment spammers […]
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 […]
The stream of posts here trying to find the threads back my family stories is less about mourning and loss, but more of, to me, the importance of retelling stories of people and things that are no more. I waver if somehow I am getting some kind of cross wiring of James Bond movies, is […]
It’s meaningful to me even if “nobody” blogs anymore, these things still work as generators of potential serendipity. Earlier this year, I rummaged through some old photos, online databases, exploring what small shreds I could find about my mother’s brother, my Uncle Harvey. I have the barest warm glow shreds of memories his wife, my […]
More in the little web joys of selk tinkering. Rewards you never get by pouring your houghts into some packaged medium sized substack of a LinkedIn space. Self-stylin; as it were. Way back in the pre lock down era of January 2020 I added a little bit of CSS to this blog thang that put […]
I hardly have to ask the internet (hey you!) to ignore me, but I am trying one more post as an ActivityPub enabled blog check the formatting when it goes out- this time I have changed the format of the posting to include a title intro, am added excerpt, and a stuffed in hashtag. Already […]
