In the morning email was a message from one of the collaborators on last month’s Reclaim Open session on the Daily Create that used the fably domain named Combobulating.net — ” it looks as if FeedWordPress has stopped updating.” I thought this would be quick, likely matter that there were no site visitors to trigger the […]
For no good reason have I been fiddling with a silly, old web site that has no bearing or real use beyond my own amusement. Can there be ever more a reason to domain your own web stuff? To do or not do what you wish? I’m not even sure why I even went looking […]
Oh as no one really sings, the SPLOTs Go On. Indeed, I have not touched/updated the SPLOT themes in so long I can’t remember, but strangely and happily enough, for the most part they keep working. Not bad for stuff hatched 2014 onward. I remain mostly the sole contributor to Sadly Robotic Metaphors for AI […]
Against my better judgement (oh it was against the judgment of the web site owner) I am setting up the old school FeedWordPress syndication bus for the crew painting the Confabulating/Combobulating site for the upcoming Reclaim Open conference. I have discovered finally a Chat AI thing I can live with and love, TomGPT which yes, […]
It’s one thing to mutter promises of being back, it’s quite another to actually do it. Through an unlikely path (again), I have finally managed to resurrect the wall of media web presentation tool I ran with for a long while, that which was once known as CoolIris. This was something I fleshed out first […]
Like Archimedes never said, “Give me a Javascript Bookmarklet short enough and a browser bar on which to place it, and I shall jump over the web world’s paywalls.” I blabbed recently about the extraordinary story and service (archive.today) created by an elusive figure that lets you easily jump the paywall. It includes what i […]
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 […]
I can’t explain the why I did this much less why I am blogging about it, but I aim to skip some of the blather, and let you, humble visitor, just take a click at what I hatched yesterday (warning note, there are images that shake and flash a bit). So yeah, I have this […]
Throw a party, in 2025 Flickr announces the arrival of Creative Commons version 4.0 licenses (cough, 12 years in the works?). I’d seen the announcement banner on flickr, though gave it no notice (especially since I use CC0 on my own photos, no versions needed). That is until I spotted a note from Sarah Honeychurch […]
I get a little grumpy when I open a new browser tab and am not greeted by a random public domain image from the Library of Congress. It’s like someone taking a knife to my IV drip of small joys. This is enabled by a little gizmo I have taken under my tech wing, the […]
