Posts by ricmac@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Avj7qn5mXeYG7wMEqW by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-07-02T09:46:26Z
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"As mainstream culture is imploding in on itself and can feel like a stitch up, new ways of being are bubbling up at the edges. It's more off-line - or at the very least in private online spaces. It's smaller, DIY in sensibility, and it's a safer space for its participants. Fundamentally it's unsurveilled." https://www.drownedinsound.org/why-we-might-be-witnessing-a-return-to-the-spirit-of-punk/?ref=drowned-in-sound-newsletter @drownedinsound
(DIR) Post #AvwESUdKkFTGf6tK2i by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-07-08T22:22:32Z
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Don’t fall for this again, hundreds of millions of people. https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-daily-app-users-new-data-shows/
(DIR) Post #AwIq3nerDjSs6BTsZc by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-07-19T19:00:47Z
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Out of sheer boredom on a Saturday post-dinner, I opened up Threads (I no longer post there) and saw this cry for help. Poor bastards… #MetaWorld #AOLvibes
(DIR) Post #AwKoJa0NwCNGnRrnzE by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-07-20T19:42:21Z
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@wjmaggos @wallabag As well as Substack being well on their way to completing the ol’ Gotcha strategy (“Wait, why do I have to download the Substack app to read newsletters now?!”), there’s also the likes of Google imposing their algorithms on email (emails getting sent to a certain tab, and now Google makes it easy to mass-unsubscribe from email newsletters). Not to mention the hidden oligarchy that controls email flow (what gets labeled spam, etc). So yes…back to RSS and hope AP comes thru.
(DIR) Post #AwtfRlqRtbZSmMSyGm by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-08-06T15:11:59Z
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I decided to start a Ghost blog after its 6.0 upgrade and what seems like full integration with the fediverse (ref @index). My new site: https://webtechnology.news. You can also follow it on Mastodon here: @feed As it says on the tin, it will be a newsletter about web technology news (for once, I am using a straight-forward name, rather than mouthfuls like ReadWriteWeb or Cybercultural)I just started this today, but what I'm thinking is it'll be a weekly linkblog with commentary, for now.
(DIR) Post #Ax5v7GMn9UAQWSMAcK by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-08-06T22:11:02Z
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Tim Berners-Lee on 6 August 1991:“The WWW project was started to allow high energy physicists to share data, news, and documentation. We are very interested in spreading the web to other areas, and having gateway servers for other data. Collaborators welcome!”https://cybercultural.com/p/1991-tim-berners-lee-trys-to-convert-the-hypertext-faithful/Notice he said collaborators and not parasites (yes, I mean AI, but also human SEO parasites). With the open social web, we have a chance for human collaboration again.
(DIR) Post #AxbIH6aqfGrdx9Lqgy by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-08-27T16:21:02Z
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Of course it's a sport that goes round and round in a circle, getting nowhere and damaging the environment.https://mstdn.social/@Mediagazer/115101620841513777
(DIR) Post #AxbJPvpY9MgB8J05jM by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-08-27T16:38:17Z
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@wjmaggos The NFL recently made a deal where it now owns 10% of ESPN! So it is operating on an entirely different level… (also says a lot about the state of mainstream media)
(DIR) Post #AxbJflpr4yPWlchCXg by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-08-27T16:38:49Z
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@wjmaggos https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6537577/2025/08/05/espn-nfl-media-network-agreement-equity/?source=athletic_moneycall_newsletter&campaign=14264079&userId=22712631
(DIR) Post #Axfir1wIouYPNu17Oy by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-08-29T16:30:37Z
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Informal Friday poll: what year did you start blogging? I've put a poll with some timeframes below, but if you want to add some colour please leave a comment. As I mentioned in my post today (https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-1999/), I started blogging in 2002, with Radio Userland. It took me a year to start ReadWriteWeb, though :) So, when did you start blogging?
(DIR) Post #AxwJ6BSSPxnQ82wPQ0 by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-09-03T13:41:35Z
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By 1999, Microsoft had vanquished Netscape in the browser war, Google was starting to show up competing search engines, and Napster and Blogger had arrived to shake up our culture. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1999/ #InternetHistory Author's note: if you read and enjoy my article, don't just 'like' it — please boost or share it on the web another way. Indie bloggers can no longer rely on Google or other big tech companies for attention, so human curation is what it's all about (again). 🙏
(DIR) Post #AxygvGR4MCylb5XOXw by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-09-05T18:19:14Z
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I think this is a fair statement, right? #Threads #FakeFediverse
(DIR) Post #AxzbcuPBDpQZRh2fQG by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-09-08T09:55:40Z
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@ricci thanks Rob. @Gargron also noted the same thing.
(DIR) Post #Ay4mQmie2kDjQ2Mqwq by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-09-10T21:29:23Z
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OMG, I just discovered I got a mention in Tim Berners-Lee’s memoir!! Totally unexpected. Ok, he spelled my name wrong, but that doesn’t matter :) The read-write web lives on!
(DIR) Post #Ay6q8qTs6gTc0R4whU by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-09-11T21:40:22Z
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I’ve been re-watching this last couple of nights. Triumph of the Nerds, tv show from 1996 by Robert X Cringley. I also loved his book, Accidental Empires, on which the tv series is based. Such good production and he speaks to all the main players (Gates, Jobs, Woz, et al). I also discovered recently (via Wikipedia) that Cringely was a stage name, which I hadn’t realized before. I’m not sure what he is doing now…70-ish and maybe struggling, house burned down, etc. https://youtu.be/ACt6xsMt5Uk?si=ClVjptyEoWvwg7rr
(DIR) Post #AyVYaR2QIxSMcyj0rI by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-08-21T10:02:33Z
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Ghost or Substack? Eleventy or WordPress? Newsletter or blog...or online magazine? There are a lot of choices these days in online publishing, so I've detailed my own recent experiences in this post. I discuss how I've found Ghost's fediverse integration so far (there are issues, but I'm fully supportive), why you *shouldn't* choose Substack, why I find @11ty such a joy, and why #WordPress is in desperate need of modernization. https://ricmac.org/2025/08/21/ghost-substack-eleventy-wordpress/
(DIR) Post #Az32vYpLwtIbhxHL2e by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-10-09T18:02:27Z
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The block button is a wonderful invention, but apparently the blocked person’s content stays attached to your posts on both Mastodon and Bluesky. I understand the technical reasons for this, but wouldn’t it be great to add a tag to their inane comments: “This individual is a turd and has been blocked by the person who started this thread.” Maybe a feature request for Mastodon?
(DIR) Post #Azi430lQdr1Ewd4RdI by ricmac@mastodon.social
2025-10-29T18:25:51Z
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A bigco techie I was DMing with described the current state of the web as a “tragedy of the commons” (per Wikipedia: “…if many people enjoy unfettered access to a finite, valuable resource, such as a pasture, they will tend to overuse it and may end up destroying its value altogether”).I think this is actually a better description of now than “enshittification”; because if creative people stop publishing to the web, that depletes the “pasture”. Human creativity & passion is no longer valued.
(DIR) Post #B23IILcTyNDpWfxzs0 by ricmac@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T12:44:35Z
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Hooray for all of us little mammals! (and the Mastodon instances, big and small)"When the get-rich-quick folks left the scene, those of us who remained, who truly loved the web as a creative and expressive medium, found a ton of opportunity in being the little mammals amidst the sad dinosaurs trying to find funding for meteor dot com." https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-tech-workers-laid-off/ by @anildash
(DIR) Post #B2Xih3JfJJrTHixDDU by ricmac@mastodon.social
2026-01-21T14:36:54Z
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In 1993, web design didn't really exist — you couldn't even change the background color of your web page from grey. But Mosaic launched the first era of visual web design with the IMG tag, and soon after an MTV VJ (@adam) improbably created one of the first commercial websites. https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/ #WebDesignHistory