As many of you know, I run this site on WordPress. If you follow WordPress at all, you’re aware that a major release — WordPress 5.0 — was recently released with major changes including a completely re-thought...
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At the start of the year I decided I needed to review my use of social media and where my time and...
Read MoreI won’t be at Worldcon (and other updates) It’s time for Worldcon and this year it’s in San Jose, just down the road. While I haven’t gone to a Worldcon in many years, I thought this might be one to get...
Read MoreSo, having gone through the planning process and deciding to kill off the Youtube channel, what am going to do? And how does the 6FPS mailing list fit into all of this? Well, among other things, I’m going to be creating...
Read MoreA bunch of little topics this week, from the state of the office to blockchains to Google and a rant about how broken Facebook is. Enjoy and let me know what you think… The Office So, in the last week… the carpet should have...
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I’ve been chewing on what makes a great online community over the last few weeks and thinking...
Read MoreIn the first part of this article we got into the idea of reputation systems and started to look at how we can tie them into the abuse reporting systems to help an abuse team prioritize which problems to investigate first and...
Read MoreTwitter has a fundamental problem: It’s broken. Worse, the company seems unable to understand how to fix itself, and its users increasingly recognize the problem and are getting frustrated at the lack of any solution. As someone...
Read MoreWhen I went on sabbatical a year ago, one of the first things I did was redesign this site. So why am I doing it again a year later? Not (just) because I was bored. I’ve found my needs changed, especially since I launched...
Read MoreI’ve been thinking a lot about my blogging, and I’ve had a couple of people ask me about how I decide what to blog about (or more correctly, “why did you write about that but haven’t talked about this...
Read MoreI’ve been watching with some dismay how Trump has again used Twitter as an attack platform against someone criticizing him. First Boeing (which has now agreed to donate money to Trumps inauguration, a classic roll over and...
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Vanity Fair published an interesting piece on Donald Trump’s bot problem: he claims 22...
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