OG blogger, podcaster, outliners, CMSes, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
Dave Winer
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Amazingly there is a strong business model there.
If the web had been allowed to grow instead of being owned by the VCs where would it have gone?
Go on walks every day, breathe fresh air. Stop worrying about what the VCs think. Be a user yourself. What were your hopes for the web before twitter.
Turns out Zelenskyy did have some cards.
They’ve been a few steps ahead of the US in our war with Russia since the early part of the century.
How to Choose the Right Blogging Platform in 2026.
If you’re too young to remember use your imagination.
You won’t find many history books to read. Try asking Claude or ChatGPT? Read some old blogs from the beginning of the 00s before “Web 2.0.” Research. Think.
Imho it’s not too late.
But the answer never lies in repeating past mistakes.
Iran has now finally carried through on a longstanding threat and in effect closed the Strait of Hormuz.
Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Our world is far more interdependent than it was in the 1970s energy crisis.
Dave Winer
Wondering how the Firefox move to AI is going?
I honestly don’t know.
I do strongly believe that their only move is in the other direction. What did the non-Microsoft browser mean in the 00s? After Netscape disappeared Into AOL. That’s their legacy. If they have a future that’s where it begins.
Craig Newmark: "Making money isn’t proof to me that I know something any better than someone else. Wealthy people who believe that they do aren’t as smart as they think."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...
Craig Newmark: "Making money isn’t proof to me that I know something any better than someone else. Wealthy people who believe that they do aren’t as smart as they think." www.nytimes.com