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@cheribaker One gets thrown into a vat of molten cheese the other smothered by a lily pad while drinking tea by the pond.

Sorry, your observation made me think of Midsomer Murders. Never mind.

@fgtech Grrr.

@pratik @Miraz American business school graduates produce some of the finest gibberish ever. As an American, I'm so proud we could make this contribution to the world enterprise social distribution channels.

@cheribaker I love the vintage Doctor Who's. Jon Pertwee is my favorite with Tom Baker a close second.

First rule of (vintage) Doctor Who: The more flimsy, wobbly and cheesy the sets, the better the story and script.

@JohnPhilpin Only to click on it and getting the box asking for the Masto instance. But I had already seen your post reporting trouble with it and reporting it to Manton, so I was not worried, that it would get sorted.

You saved me a lot of clicking about and frustration, John. Thank you.

@manton Thank you for the new commenting form. Not having commenting is something that has been really bothering me for a long time. I think it is an elegant first step for addressing the issue. So, thanks again.

Also, nice explanation in your video.

@bradenslen Testing replies.

@chrisaldrich That is a great collection.

@alongtheray Congrats on the new blog. Somehow you convey that publishing/creating on the web dose not have to be scary and that is an important thing.

@AndySylvester Well said.

@JohnPhilpin Paywall on the Times article. But a different article I read about this, the man mentioned that it was a political statement as well as art. Protected speech. Given that, it will be hard for the bureaucrats to move against him. Love this.

@alongtheray Ditto. @smokey I hope all is well with you.

@klandwehr Ohh! That's a great idea.

@fgtech I made the mistake of clicking on an advert on XTwitter and was taken to a site with infinite scroll - all poorly written copy and ads.

@philipbrewer Wordpress works very well with post formats. Very versatile.

@caryjo.bsky.social They have to be healthy eating!

@odd I really like what you have been doing at urly.party. The times you have commented have added to the topic.

If I'm going to comment on a link I think I will post it to my main blog. I just keep the linkblog short and simple for quick posting.

@AndySylvester I'm glad it was timely. I really need to dig deeper into @Manton blog, there is so much deep stuff.

@odd I think you and I spent way too much time watching the same cartoons. :)

@cheribaker For Sal's sake it's a good thing paisley is long out of style.

@manton Big congrats to @KimberlyHirsh on the new position.

@JohnPhilpin That is one cool guestbook! I've never seen anything quite like it.

@jean I'm so sorry to lose you as Community Manager. Thank you for all the things you have done for us over the last seven years. But I am so glad you are buying a house and are going to write books. Books! How cool is that? I'm wishing you much happiness and contentment.

@odd @JohnPhilpin The search engine race is starting up. A lot will depend on what happens in the Google anti-trust trial in the US and EU regulatory action in Europe, because Google is so dominant they tend to suck all the life out of search.

There are a lot of search engines with their own indexes starting up but they tend to be small right now. Seirdy has a rundown which is long but the best reference I know of. Some of these search engines will fall by the wayside.

I'm trying to keep this reply short. The best of the up and coming general web search engines is Mojeek. They hit all the right buttons: privacy, their own index and algo, and uncluttered UI. Their index is probably 4th largest in size after Google, Bing and Yandex. For general daily search they tend to dig up really good lesser know websites while avoiding the same old corporate sites. You should try them.

You are right, and Molly alludes to this in her newsletter as "pathways", we need to build not only websites and blogs but also the things that connect them together and make them findable: search engines, directories, webrings, blogrolls and linkblogs, plus things we haven't thought of yet.

@odd @JohnPhilpin And let's hear it for Micro.blog. What other social network has a discussion about Bakelite?

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