Jack Baty is embarrassed when he looks at his tools. We live in a society with a lot of alternative products and services. The more things we have to choose from, the more confused we become. Sometimes it's better to have few options, it's easier to make a decision.
🔉 If you like listening to Nature sounds you can try moodil.com. There are a lot of options to try and it's completely free.
“ I tried and failed a few times at starting a “blog” / website. Though I could probably point to a few reasons why those projects never took off, I think the root cause was ultimately me writing for someone else, rather than just for myself. - Mike Sass via shellsharks.com” I totally agree with Mike Sass' thoughts on blogging. I've had several blogs in the past and always ended up abandoning them for lack of motivation. I was blogging for other people, not for myself. Now I post more personal stuff than in the past (quotes, links, services I like,...
😏 There is always more to learn.
🔥 I prefer to stay away from flames, both digital and real.
I've recently realised that over the past few years I've been on a JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out) journey without even being aware of it. I gave up Instagram and Facebook a few years ago, and I've been off Twitter for a while. I started being more interested in blogging and I'm enjoyng doing long walks as much as I can. I'm not off the grid because I've replaced algorithm-based social networks with other fediverse alternatives like Mastodon, Pixelfed and Lemmy. Micro.blog has also played a big part in helping me get off the big tech platforms. Being away from...
After a month of (almost) daily posts, I realised there are still many people who enjoy writing (and reading) blogs. It's awesome! The web has become a kind of business over the last few decades and AI will be the final step in making the internet impersonal. We need more blogs and we need more people who like the personal web. 👍
Three tips for being a nice person on the web: - Think before you speak; - Respect other people and their ideas; - Don't be an asshole.
In my humble opinion blogging is still cool. Why? - It gives me time to think about things and jot down my thoughts. - I have full control of my blog (I can change themes, pages, hosting and use a personal domain). - When I used commercial services like Facebook I felt locked down on their condition terms and services. These are just few positive things about personal blogging. Are you planning to start or re-start blogging?
🤔 I'm not involved with Wikipedia, but I'm wondering how that service can fight against people adding computer-generated content to the wiki. It will be increasingly difficult for humans to disguise AI-generated content with original material.
🗨 I'd like to quit WhatsApp, but it's complicated because everyone uses it, including my contacts at work. I think a lot of people are in the same situation...
“You don’t need to labor over your posts. You don’t need to have perfect grammar or spelling. You don’t need to leave a post in draft for seven months, pouring over research. (Though you can if you want!) You don’t really need to have an idea. Just write. Then share. Blogging is a conversation. It’s a conversation with yourself and it’s a conversation with others. - Barry Hess”
Having your "www.fullname.com" blog should normally be the first choice for your professional / company blog. But you can also think about opening a semi-anonimous blog where to post thoughts and ideas that you don't want to be directly related to yourself. A place where you can feel to be more free than your official blog. A place where you can post what you want when you want. A place that's completely yours. Disclaimer: please remember that opening a semi-anonimous blog does not mean you are fully anonimous. So please respect the laws and the others.
Following social networks is not easy, sometimes there is a lot of 'background noise' in timelines that leads to distraction and that you would like to avoid. Using an RSS feed reader can be a good choice, but how do you follow a Mastodon user? It is very simple! The URL of the feed is: [instance address]/users/[username].rss or .atom So, for example, if you add the following address to your feed reader: https://mastodon.social/users/gargron.rss You will get all the Gargron user toots on the mastodon.social instance.
Recently I've tried to give to Gemini and Copilot some blog post prompts in order to evaluate the result. Unsurprisingly I found the resulting texts to be correct but completely lacking of human touch. A sort of copy and paste from several resources. Yes, you can ask in the prompt to be more or less polite, but the final writings seemed to me quite clumpsy. Since English is not my mother tongue I've found them useful for checking grammar or words, but nothing more. AI can probably be useful for "official / corporate blogs", but please stay away from them...