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On Bluesky: I asked ChatGPT when weblogs.com peaked.
", "pubDate": "2026-05-02T14:40:22.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/02/8687/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/02/8687/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/02/8687/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\n[On Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/did%3aplc%3aoety7qbfx7x6exn2ytrwikmr/post/3mkutmleibc2k): I asked ChatGPT when [weblogs.com peaked](https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/02/wheWeblogsPeaked.png).", "wpPostId": 8687 }, { "title": "Open proposal to A8C teams-of-two", "description": "\nI’ve heard that Automattic is running a special deal where developers inside the company can take a month off to do their own project to make WordPress better for users.
\nI would like to propose that in the spirit of interop and the web that we work together on a project. I have a specific one in mind.
\nBackground
\nMy product, FeedLand can make single page websites with news from a specific group of feeds.
\nThey’re easy to set up, all you have to do is subscribe to the feeds, map them to a category, and then set up the shell, and FeedLand takes care of the rest. You probably want to assign a domain too.
My WordPress news site
\nHere’s such a single-page site, for WordPress news.
\n\nAnd here’s the OPML subscription list,
\n\nThe OPML is automatically updated every time a feed is added or removed. This is what we call “dynamic OPML.” You can import it to any feed reader, and re-import it to reflect changes.
\nThis is also a nice thing to automate, so users don’t have to repeat the import manually, there’s no reason the software can’t do it. If you make a feed reader or podcast client you could let users subscribe to OPML feeds. That would imho break open the podcast client market in a very good way.
\nBTW, feedland.social is a server I use for development at this time. No one else can create an account there. Use feedland.com if you want to try out the product.
\nI want more feeds
\nI know there are more feeds about WordPress out there. I want to get them added to wp.feedland.org, so we’re presenting more comprehensive news about WordPress. I can’t imagine anything that would be more useful to WordPress users.
\nThere’s so much happening, and honestly a lot of confusion too, and we know in the near future there will be a lot of new products shipped by the teams-of-two. Think of all the news that will generate!
\nIt’s recursive!
\nThis project would be immediatlely useful for following the project itself.
\nI remember from the early days when blogging booted up that these were the most valued experiments. I did a site that reflected changes in all blogs we monitored called weblogs.com, and it instantly became the backbone of the blogger’s web. And that was followed by RSS that did it on the item level, not the site level and brought in all the big news orgs because it fit their format better.
\nAll good software projects are recursive and this one is no exception.
Let’s grow the list together
\nImport my OPML feed to your favorite feed reader and use it yourself to get an idea of what kind of info we’re getting. Or just follow my site, and send me an email when you see one that should be in the list. I’ll start a thread on GitHub where you can do this.
\nWe can grow this very quickly, imho — once people hear that there’s a great distribution system for news about all of WordPress, they’ll get on board and start new blogs to share what we learned.
\nChallenge
\nLet’s make information and ideas flow around the WordPress community much better than it does now.
\nFor a company that makes a great idea-sharing network, you guys use a lot of other people’s products where your product would work even better imho.
\nAnd let’s start working together, don’t let corporate boundaries get in the way of good ideas helping make WordPress more useful and competitive.
\nComments, links?
\nIf you have a WordPress news site, send me a link, or post the link here.
", "pubDate": "2026-05-02T14:40:22.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/02/open-proposal-to-a8c-teams-of-two/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/02/open-proposal-to-a8c-teams-of-two/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/02/open-proposal-to-a8c-teams-of-two/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nIāve heard that Automattic is running a special deal where developers inside the company can take a month off to do their own project to make WordPress better for users.\n\nI would like to propose that in the spirit of interop and the web that we work together on a project. I have a specific one in mind.\n\n**Background**\n\nMy product, [FeedLand](https://docs.feedland.com/gettingstarted.md) can make single page websites with news from a specific group of feeds.\n\nTheyāre easy to set up, all you have to do is subscribe to the feeds, map them to a category, and then set up the shell, and FeedLand takes care of the rest. You probably want to assign a domain too. š\n\n**My WordPress news site**\n\nHereās such a single-page site, for WordPress news.\n\n-![](\"https://i0.wp.com/imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/02/itsTime.png?ssl=1\")
It’s time to do whatever you were sent here to do.
", "pubDate": "2026-05-02T13:54:44.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/02/its-time/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/02/its-time/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/02/its-time/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\n\n\nItās time to do whatever you were sent here to do.", "wpPostId": 8682 }, { "description": "\nBTW, I pointed to the Wikipedia page for XML-RPC, and noticed that they point to an archive.org copy of a very old version of the website, instead of the updated site which has new reference code written in JavaScript. The old version of the site used Frontier, which is where XML-RPC was developed, but it’s not in wide use these days, JavaScript is. Could someone update the Wikipedia page to change the link to the current XML-RPC site? I’m reluctant to do it myself because that’s somewhat against the rules.
", "pubDate": "2026-05-01T13:35:53.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8673/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8673/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8673/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nBTW, I pointed to the [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC) page for XML-RPC, and noticed that they point to an archive.org copy of a very old version of the website, instead of the updated site which has new reference code written in JavaScript. The old version of the site used Frontier, which is where XML-RPC was developed, but itās not in wide use these days, JavaScript is. Could someone update the Wikipedia page to change [the link](https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/01/wikipediaLink.png) to the current [XML-RPC](https://xmlrpc.com/) site? Iām reluctant to do it myself because thatās somewhat against the rules.", "wpPostId": 8673 }, { "description": "\nBTW, I pointed to the Wikipedia page for XML-RPC, and noticed that they point to an archive.org copy of a very old version of the website, instead of the updated site which has new reference code written in JavaScript. The old version of the site used Frontier, which is where XML-RPC was developed, but it’s not in wide use these days, JavaScript is. Could someone update the Wikipedia page to change the link to the current XML-RPC site? I’m reluctant to do it myself because that’s somewhat against the rules.
", "pubDate": "2026-05-01T13:35:53.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8672/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8672/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8672/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nBTW, I pointed to the [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC) page for XML-RPC, and noticed that they point to an archive.org copy of a very old version of the website, instead of the updated site which has new reference code written in JavaScript. The old version of the site used Frontier, which is where XML-RPC was developed, but itās not in wide use these days, JavaScript is. Could someone update the Wikipedia page to change the link to the current [XML-RPC](https://xmlrpc.com/) site? Iām reluctant to do it myself because thatās somewhat against the rules.", "wpPostId": 8672 }, { "description": "\nApparently Substack does not implement MCP, which is basically the XML-RPC of AI. According to ChatGPT they have a limited API that some independent developers have bridged to MCP. But as you would expect from a tight silo like Substack, the API lets you read but not write. They want you to use their editor, what they don’t want is to be one of 20 distributors of your writing. They want an exclusive and they get it.
", "pubDate": "2026-05-01T13:30:27.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8668/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8668/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8668/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nApparently Substack does not implement [MCP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_Context_Protocol), which is basically the [XML-RPC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC) of AI. According to [ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/share/69f4aae0-1778-83ea-bf7a-9986cbb4e7e5) they have a limited API that some independent developers have bridged to MCP. But as you would expect from a tight silo like Substack, the API lets you read but not write. They want you to use their editor, what they donāt want is to be one of 20 distributors of your writing. They want an exclusive and they get it.", "wpPostId": 8668 }, { "description": "\nThe backup of this blog for April in OPML format.
", "pubDate": "2026-05-01T13:03:00.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8655/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8655/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8655/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nThe [backup](https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/blob/master/blog/opml/2026/04.opml) of this blog for April in OPML format.", "wpPostId": 8655 }, { "description": "\n![](\"https://i0.wp.com/imgs.scripting.com/2019/07/02/knicks.png?ssl=1\")
Welcome to May, the fairest month of all in the NYC area. Almost every day in May is delicious. And today is esp fair, the Knicks moved on to the next round of the playoffs with a record-setting decisive victory over the Hawks of Atlanta. The next opponent is either the Celtics of Boston or the Sixers of Philadelphia. I was already burned out on the playoffs last week, but I’m rejuvenated. Let’s go. And I apologize about all the “realistic” things I said about Brunson. He caught fire in the last three games, and showed he has the determination we need to go all the way this year. The Knicks are great because unlike the Yankees or Mets, they unify the city. And as everyone learns, NYC is so huge that the fanbase can pack arenae all over the US, as they chanted the name of OG and MVP for Brunson and Dooooooce when McBride shoots. If they don’t get to the finals it will not be for lack of talent or determination. There will be luck and Acts of God involved in the outcome.
On this day in 2016 I wrote a screed on Facebook saying how I wanted to turn it into a blogging platform including the how and why. The arguments are roughly the same ones about how I want Bluesky to stop paying homage to the limits of Twitter and cozy up to the web and let’s do writing for real, undo the damage caused by Twitter in its over 20-year life. The requests in both case fell on deaf ears. So we are where we were in 2016, we have to replace Bluesky with the writing system of the web. And there is a silver lining to Automattic’s excursion into a mini-version of WordPress that looks and behaves like Twitter. They used RSS to glue the systems together. It was convenient, and that’s one of the major selling points of RSS, it is convenient. It’s supported everywhere (except the offspring of Twitter). So thanks for that. I’m still glued to this cause. I don’t want to retire until writing on the web gets back on track.
", "pubDate": "2026-05-01T13:03:00.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8653/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8653/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/05/01/8653/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nOn this day in 2016 I wrote a [screed on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/dave.winer.12/posts/pfbid02EjgX2KjkLLuFpXv5MGFsK431EiyHw8jwabu3gCeMg86m8BQch6vNto7Eu6UoBmKJl) saying how I wanted to turn it into a blogging platform including the how and why. The arguments are roughly the same ones about how I want Bluesky to stop paying homage to the limits of Twitter and cozy up to the web and letās do writing for real, undo the damage caused by Twitter in its over 20-year life. The requests in both case fell on deaf ears. So we are where we were in 2016, we have to replace Bluesky with the writing system of the web. And there is a silver lining to Automatticās excursion into a mini-version of WordPress that looks and behaves like Twitter. They used RSS to glue the systems together. It was convenient, and thatās one of the major selling points of RSS, it is convenient. Itās supported everywhere (except the offspring of Twitter). So thanks for that. Iām still glued to this cause. I donāt want to retire until writing on the web gets back on track.", "wpPostId": 8653 }, { "description": "\nThis Knicks fan is happy! ![\"ā¤\"](\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2764.png\")
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