# Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:15:19 GMT ## GoodPods is a social network for podcasts. # Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:11:38 GMT ## I made fun of the Apple Watch the day it was announced, but got one anyway and I've been wearing it ever since. With that said, do you think the new Apple VR device comes with a neck brace? # Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:49:12 GMT ## New header image for the blog, it's a frame of the Talking Heads 1983 live performance of Life During Wartime. It's a beautiful high energy song, the dancing, they're all so attractive, so young -- the sheer joy of it, it's totally worth savoring. Anybody have any questions? 😄 # Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:46:28 GMT ## Apple Vision Pro headset -
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.
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