Dave Winer
I've been building around WordPress to create a social network based on RSS. I want to get out of being controlled by billionaire-owned sites. I have a feeling we may need a good backup given where we are now.
scripting.com/2025/08/28/140604.html
- Trump doesn’t care what you think of him as long as what you think of him is all you think about.
- With ChatGPT-like systems, complex APIs are not as much an obstacle as they were before.
- We're all going to be wearing those hats soon, right??
- I imagine back then actors were outraged that movies were stealing their jobs.
- Congrats to "DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME REIMAGINED" by Talissa Mehringer, an Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅 A music-film remix celebrating 1930s choreography & screen performers. Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/drea... #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay
- Reboot a local DC news org, price it right, so non-subscribers can read stories the same way we pay tolls when driving places.
- What goes up must come down.
- independent journalism needs independent cash flow. scripting.com/2020/06/23/115824.html?title=anEzpassForNews
- Maybe it’s time for the news industry reform around the EZ-Pass for News? scripting.com/2020/06/23/115824.html?title=anEzpassForNews
- This is what it was like when google first dominated the RSS reader market then shut its product down, forcing all news to flow through VC-backed silos like Twitter and Facebook. Reporters weren't covering tech with a cynical eye back then, this blew right by them. cc @hcrichardson.bsky.social
- I wish I hadn’t let Apple automatically update my iPad. All of a sudden, I don’t know how to use this thing that I didn’t even have to think about before now all these stupid little things have changed and I want to know what the fuck.
