It's been a while since I asked about writing into AI chatbots -- ie writing something designed to be queried via something like ChatGPT, or ideally, ChatGPT itself. A few bullet points follow.
I borrowed a lot of prior art for FeedLand from social media, specifically, the idea that subscription lists are public. So you can walk a network of followship, and get ideas of who to subscribe to that way. Click a checkbox and you're connected.
That makes it easy to peer with social networks, if they support OPML subscription lists and RSS feeds of posts. And -- as of May 24, we now have that implemented for Bluesky, through their API.
Everything's ready to go!
I've spent the last few days teaching FeedLand how to do with Bluesky what it does with old school RSS feeds. Today I got it working. Real sense of accomplishment. Not deployed yet, but I'm pretty sure it will be soon. The pieces fit together amazingly well.
If you're a regular FeedLand user who also uses Bluesky, please respond to this post. I'd like to loop you in on the new stuff when it's ready for testing. You don't actually need a Bluesky account to get the benefit, that's the cute/cool thing about it. We're bringing Bluesky to the open web. 😀
# Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:27:53 GMT ## More Succession. People wonder how can they like a show where everyone is ugly. Maybe the answer lies in the fact that the main character of the show isn't human -- it's The Song. Maybe it's just a 4-season-long music video. # Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:32:00 GMT ## Did you know that you can get Alexa to play the Succession theme song. On the Studio player it's magnificent. Now you can have it be the theme song for your great accomplishments. Get an elegant bit of code running? Fire it up! You're the boss. You did it. # Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:07:14 GMT ## Newsletter apps have had their moment, now WordPress has one, and wonderfully it has inadvertently plied open the lock-in that Substack imposes, by making everyone use their editor. WordPress has a time-tested API, so I could theoretically write my newsletters in Drummer and push them up to WordPress which would then send them out. # Fri, 02 Jun 2023 15:26:46 GMT ## I asked ChatGPT for a list of popular podcasting clients. # Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:39:39 GMT ## 2009: The only platform that really works is a platform with no platform vendor, and that's the Internet. # Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:34:00 GMT ## I was a skeptic -I was a skeptic when Apple came out with the iPhone, iPad and the watch and ended up eating my words. I use all three products daily.
When the iPhone came out I was a Blackberry user and loved it. I was angry with Apple for not running Mac software on the phone.
I had reasons for not liking the iPad and watch, but eventually used the iPad even more than the iPhone and I wear the watch every day.
None of them for me were revolutionary products, but they were good products. Worthwhile products. Impossible to resist.
Update: On the other hand, here's my one-month review of the first iPhone. It was not at time, for me, a winner.
# Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:30:51 GMT ##
I did my first fat tweet, yet another post about Succession. I'm watching the last episode every night. Still finding new things to admire. Here's a screen shot of the tweet in all its corpulence. It's way easier to read than a headline and a link to a blog post. They should work on the formatting a bit. The text is too large and there isn't enough spacing between lines. But it works, and is a welcome addition. There's still more to do -- let's have optional titles, links, styling, editing and enclosures.
# Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:44:45 GMT
## Mastodon, Bluesky and Twitter should not be silos relative to each other. I'm starting to post links to Masto on Twitter, and links to Twitter on Bluesky. All combos. I realized I was, in my mind, assuming these were silos. I think other people do too. That's not a good limit to impose, doesn't work in our interests, as users and developers.
# Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:10:06 GMT
## The 1619 Project had a primetime special on ABC last night. Great perspective-changing stuff. I think a lot more people watch ABC than watch Fox.
# Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:11:42 GMT
## I wonder if any librarians have written about ChatGPT. I bet they aren't worried about losing their jobs. That's the thing. When Napster was booting up, most of us were thrilled with the ability to finally program our own music. Now we take it for granted. Google was, it turns out, just a glimpse into the future. What we really wanted was a virtual librarian who had access to all the information available to our civilization. Now we're getting there. When I was growing up, the librarians, who became my friends, only had access to a very small fraction of what was known. Basically the books that can fit into a modest-size storefront in Flushing. Now when you ask for help, they'll have access to everything.
# Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:40:30 GMT
## The more I use ChatGPT the more I wish it had existed when I was a student. I would have learned so much more. It also would have filled in the blanks for impenetrable teachers and textbooks.
# Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:02:59 GMT
## BTW, we also have a limited ability to edit a tweet. Screen shot.
# Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:23:40 GMT
## The usual monthly ritual. Here's the May archive in OPML.
