This is the longest streak of not-writing in years. It’s impossible to know what to say, impossible to describe the disappointment and frustration over the last few weeks. Right now it feels best to be quiet so I’ve thrown myself into my...

Digital Archaeology exhibit at Internet Week 2011; photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid. Before I left for New York in the first week of June 2011, I reviewed our May traffic. It was dismal. We’d had our lowest monthly total page views...

Global warming and the unfolding climate collapse is a tragedy, so I kind of feel bad enjoying the absolutely gorgeous and unusually warm and sunny for late November Monday. But not too bad? That's what I was contemplating while idling...

Read on the website: Text generation was a lot of fun before ChatGPT—it was chaotic and deranged. I written this post using the old text generation techniques. You'll like how absurd it turned out, I promise!

I’ve been thinking a bit about two pieces that talk about Substack, the massively popular and occasionally controversial newsletter platform: Anil Dash’s “Don’t Call it a Substack” John Gruber’s “Regarding—and, Well, Against—Substack”...