A seven-minute post on:
- Audiences, and where I (might) find them;
- Twiddling – and the dilemma up-and-coming artists didn’t ask to be put in;
- TTLY…: Old posts.
Chasing the Audience
Tag: enshittification
On BlueSky (In the Short Term)
An eight-minute spiel of blue-sky thinking:
- Do I join BlueSky (the real McCoy – no bridges)?
- Network effects: They explain how people move, but as to why, we need to dig a little deeper;
- Why not both?: If you’re already on BlueSky, join Mastodon – it’s not perfect, but you’ll find a place for you.
This Is Not a Linkdump
A sixteen-minute read on an assortment of topics, such as:
- An odd debate on Google’s breakup: The jury is in – Google’s a monopoly. But is it a *gasp* good monopoly???
- Moderation in early MMORPGs: Early reputation systems allowed MMO players to moderate themselves;
- Cocoanuts aren’t nuts (or cocoa!): Etymology of the word ‘coconut;’
- You NEED to play Emerald Rogue (but not before I complain about Discord once more): Another good ROM hack held hostage by the unindexable walled garden that is Discord;
- It is (no longer) Caturday, my dudes: My cat is more handsome than your cat.
Discord’s Enshittification
Fifteen Million Tooters
This Hacker’s Mind
- My biggest confession as a professional hacker is that I don’t do a lot of hacking, yet I try to think like a hacker all the time.
- I subscribed to a physical magazine in 2024.
- BM to DRM: Drop dead.
That Old Back Catalogue (Part VI): The Internet Con
- It’s finally time to talk about the one book that’s constantly been at the back of my mind since making this blog.
- No summary this time – anyone with a pulse should read this book for themselves.
Three Amstrads, Two Droll Daves, and an Orange on a Black Tee
- CONTENT WARNING: Sex, BDSM, questioning authority.
- Part I – Dave Gorman: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Look Closer;
- Part II – David Graeber: A quick(ish) rundown of the moral injury of working in a bullshit job on someone else’s clock;
- Part III – The Amstrads: Use your foe’s advertising against them;
- Part IV – The T-shirt: What to do when the custom T-shirt website won’t let you mention the boss…
Wash That X Site Outta Our Hair
- A brief respite from editing posts on polemic books to bring you news about the ex-bird site – news about its ex-users, that is.
- The migration from X (formerly known as Twitter) to Mastodon gave researchers a golden opportunity to record data on the collective action problem. Spoilers: it’s pretty good news.
I Want My Twitter Friends Back
- Twitter friends: Friends, on Twitter, who I left without telling them where I was going.
- Our social media predicament: Is it addiction, a you problem? Or does that distract us from the reality of monopolies doing a monopoly?
- The EU will force Big Tech companies to interoperate in 2024. It’s got one chance to show the world how interop can work. I hope it does.