Social Media

Threads: Follow Your Friends and Never See Them Again

My take on Threads is a lot like Amit Gawande's: Threads reminded me of why I eventually fell off the Twitter timeline. It's the same people talking about the same stuff they always do. The early adopters, the famous bloggers and podcasters. The social media celebrities. They have a bubble of their own. They talk amongst themselves as you listen. You are not part of any community -- you are watching a show. Then there are the posts that are written mainly to go viral. The memes. The questions. ... (read more)

2023/07/09

Whatever Happened to the Blogroll?

One of the side effects of reviving an old site design on Workbench is that this blog has a blogroll again. Bloggers used to put a long list of links on their homepage to other blogs they read (or wanted you to think they read). I don't know why everybody stopped doing that. Since I was borrowing an old design from 2008 I decided to bring back the blogroll too. I used the same blogroll but dropped the sites that are inactive or gone after 12 years, leaving these 20 diehards: A Whole Lotta ... (read more)

2020/05/12