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Crazy Stupid Tech is a weekly newsletter about innovation and new technologies by longtime tech journalists Om Malik and Fred Vogelstein.

Former county clerk Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years for voting-system breach

New Yorker’s ‘Social Media Is Killing Kids’ Article Waits 71 Paragraphs To Admit Evidence Doesn’t Support The Premise.

If I ask good questions ChatGPT stretches my mind in ways it never has been stretched before.

Automattic demanded web host pay $32M annually for using WordPress trademark.

And forget about paying the news orgs. They don't give you a way to opt out of the lies.

I don't think you can claim to be part of the "social web" if you don't support links, btw. It's the most basic feature of the web.

Ian Kennedy put together a portal of NYC bloggers, sorted by borough, using FeedLand.

So far we've only created reading portals. What I want for myself and for you, is a writing portal. Think about it.

2004: Anatomy of an iPodder.

“Part of being a Mets fan is the pain."

John Roberts' Sordid Legacy: 14 Pages of Mean Tweets.

I'm still waiting for the podcast client that can subscribe to OPML lists, so I can subscribe to shows from my desktop. If one of them did, we could start curated lists of feeds put together by smart people and influencers.

The Making of Mork and Mindy.

Trump election interference trial: Jack Smith's big new Jan. 6 brief is a major indictment of the Supreme Court.

Jack Smith Lays Out New Evidence in Trump’s Jan. 6 Case.

MLB Gameday live updates: Mets at Brewers game on 10/02/2024.

How unhinged must Trump get to even matter?

Bank of America unavailable: Users report account issues on app.

Why bother with debates, for that matter why bother with the New York Times. What exactly is the purpose of these fake journalists.

scripting.com turns thirty in: 5 days, 42 minutes, 35 seconds.

You'll see this now every time you see El Orange speak.

Trade Secrets Radio: What is podcasting? This is the exact moment (9/24/2004) that podcasting got its name and its definition. We loved what RSS did for news, now we were doing the same thing for radio, not just talking but doing. If you were there, you remember this as well as I do.

The messy rules around cannabis use and organ transplants.

Why should the New York Times hold Harris to a higher standard than Trump? Isn't that sort of our whole problem.

The 1962 Mets No Longer Hold Season Loss Record.

I asked ChatGPT to explain positioning as covered by Ries and Trout books. I read their books in the 80s, made a big difference in my career.

My linkblog feed, the same items I crosspost to Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, WordPress, Twitter. Works wherever RSS 2.0 is supported.

Had a long phone talk with Doc today about crossposting and textcasting and other topics.

I wish the various networks that broadcast Mets games would standardize on the scorebox position and layout. It’s another example of bigco’s who aren’t customer focused.

Introducing User Magazine by Taylor Lorenz.

Cross-posting is here now. I am not surprised Croissant is getting such a positive reception.

I asked ChatGPT what is textcasting?

The New York Times is putting Ezra Klein’s podcast archives behind a paywall.

If you let enough people congregate in the same space some issues will inevitably arise. Grifters are gonna grift, scammers will try to scam, hustlers will hustle, influencers are gonna try to influence, and business people will try to monetise everything.

I haven't tried this, but this is how we get around ActivityPub, with cross-posting. It doesn't matter what protocol you implement as long as you have a reasonable API. With some money they could and should at Twitter to this. Still reallllly popular. And Bluesky -- increase your character limit.

Google adds a multi-functional quick insert key and new AI features to Chromebook Plus.

Pete Rose, baseball phenom who was banned for gambling, dies at 83.

Doc Searls: Post flow.

Mets rally past Braves in Game 1 thriller, clinch NL playoff spot.

This is the WordPress view of my linkblog. Also appears on Bluesky, Mastodon, Twitter, Threads, my blog and of course RSS.

We’re only beginning to understand the historic nature of Helene’s flooding.

Republican Couple Records Kamala Harris Ad, Threats Follows.

Harris Says She Backs Legalizing Marijuana.

CBS should just scroll the factcheck data through the bottom of the screen in real time. Don’t make people go to the website. This isn’t hard.

Kris Kristofferson, Revered Songwriter Transcended Genre, Dead at 88.

This is probably the first piece Doc Searls wrote about podcasting, exactly twenty years ago yesterday.

Much easier than struggling with ActivityPub, would be a set of functionally equivalent APIs and a common understanding of what a “post” is among various social web systems. This how we created solid interop in the blogging world, and it would work here too.

Scripting News: Making the social web really work.

2017: I want my old blog back. (And it was a good move, glad I gave up on making the ghost of Google Reader happy.)

POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world.

Knicks trade Julius Randle to Timberwolves for Karl-Anthony Towns in rare player swap between contenders.

Flaw in Kia’s web portal let researchers track, hack cars.

Special Counsel Proposes Making Public More Evidence From Trump Election Case.

Special Counsel Proposes Making Public More Evidence From Trump Election Case.

This would make being a woman a crime, and says the government doesn’t just own the embryo in a woman’s womb, but their whole reproductive system. Next step is imprisonment, to be sure women of reproductive age actually reproduce, and of course with the right men.

What if the media has the election all wrong (and Harris is running away with it)?

The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained.