The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café Social
Nicholas A. Ferrell
The Emu Café Social is a social-publishing site powered by WordPress. Members will be able to use the site to post about what interests them and discuss their external projects. While the site is conducive to short-to-medium-length posts, it also accommodates longer-form writing. By advertising feeds and user profiles, it will be easy for visitors to follow individual writers or to follow the project as a whole. In general, members of the site can and will post about subjects of interest to them.
Latest Posts
Replied to Powering Product Discovery in ChatGPT by OpenAI Blog (openai.com) To build these deep partnerships, we want to offer merchants options for how they convert consumers. We’ve found that the initial version of Instant Checkout...
I have another busy “work” day ahead of me, but I won’t let that come between you and today’s Pook-Emu Bee daily links collection. 1. yokohama (Kat at Our Adventures in Japan. March 25, 2026.) Spring hasn’t fully spring in Yokohama, but...
Quoted End is nigh for Watchtower sign: Iconic placard to come down after $340M sale (2017) by Kathryn Brenzel (therealdeal.com) The iconic Watchtower sign, a glowing fixture over Brooklyn Heights, will soon disappear from the skyline....
Quoted [No Title] by Leon Mika (lmika.org) Not every single blog post needs to read like an article from the Economist. You could, you know, just get to the point. Words of wisdom from Leon Mika about getting to the point in blog...
I am busy with work today. But today is a day ending in -day that is not Newsletter Satur-day, so I briefly set aside my business to deliver my not-yet-world-famous Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. FCC bans imports of new routers made in other...
Quoted The Best Anime of Winter 2026 by Kevin Cormack (Anime News Network) Frieren is now the new gateway drug to recommend to potential new anime fans, with the only downside that almost no other anime can hope to measure up. Anime News...
Replied to On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity by Wojtek Powiertowski (behindtheviewfinder.com) On a personal note, I'm not a writer. I didn't study writing. I'm a silicon architect and a busy dad of three little kids,...
Replied to On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity by Wojtek Powiertowski (behindtheviewfinder.com) Benjamin Breen wrote a piece today that captures this tension beautifully. He's a historian and writer who commits to not...
Replied to On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity by Wojtek Powiertowski (behindtheviewfinder.com) Where I'd push back gently is on the implication that AI-assisted media is somehow lesser for being assisted. We've seen...
Replied to On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity by Wojtek Powiertowski (behindtheviewfinder.com) Thank you for the thoughtful engagement with my post, Mr. Ferrell and for the kind framing. I believe we might be closer...
Victor V. Gurbo is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter (see his official website). I have known him for just about 20 years now (we both agree that has been way too long but it is too late now to do anything about it). Victor has...
Quoted Almost 20 Years Later, The PS3 Is Still Receiving Updates by Moises Taveras (GameSpot) Your eyes do not deceive you: Sony's nearly decades-old console has received a new update. Version 4.93 of the PS3 firmware is now available...
Monday is the beginning of the work week. But it is also Pook-Emu Bee links day. Of course, every day except Newsletter Saturday is Pook-Emu Bee links day… 1. Hiding Behind Pen Names (Jerome Mazandarani for Anime News Network. March 23,...
Favorited I wish reply articles worked better by Maddy Miller (madelinemiller.dev) Something that I felt was missing however, was the ability to find actual “reply articles”. Articles written in reply to mine. These generally are my...
I credited a blog post to the personal blog of the pseudonymous Joel Chrono with giving me a concept for my new New Leaf Journal Blogroll. Because Joel Chrono’s post gave me an idea and I read his post because I subscribe to his RSS...