This is another great photo-centric post from Adam Chandler, this one focusing on photos he took during an evening walk in DC. I made a brief post on Tuesday of this week about how much I liked his earlier One Day in DC post. Beautiful and inspiring stuff.
tags: blogging photography
posted by matt in Friday, May 2, 2025
SCOTUSblog is delighted to announce that it has been acquired by Dispatch Media, Inc., and will round out The Dispatch’s coverage of the Supreme Court and the rule of law.
Back when I first starting blogging in 2001-ish, with my ill-fated Promote the Progress patent law blog, SCOTUSblog quickly became a model for legal blogging. The site has a long track record of consistently delivering current, high quality content. It's weird to see this announcement that SCOTUSblog has been acquired by Dispatch Media, which has the following description in the title its main site, The Dispatch: Unbiased News & Informed Conservative Analysis. SCOTUSblog certainly has every right to choose its own future, but I hate to think of SCOTUSblog content as either conservative or liberal. The Founding Manifesto for The Dispatch does a nice job explaining that its focus is more on conservatism and not on the Republican Party, which helps but I'll still be reading new SCOTUSblog content through a new lens.
posted by matt in Monday, April 28, 2025
"Even if no one else reads my blog, having an idea harvester and an archive of years of writing gives me something no one has had before. No one."
Except Daystream.
I understand Dave Winer's excitement about his Daytona (and now Drummer) project, but to claim "no one" had something like his new feature simply because he's not aware of it is sort of naive and, well, arrogant. It's like every inventor that comes to me for a patent application, claiming their invention must be new because they've never seen anything like it in stores before. Nine times out of ten a simple patentability search reveals something really close to what they've got. Did Dave make a search before writing that claim? Or is he just making a judgment based on the various blogging and writing platforms he has used or is familiar with?
I mean, damn, one of the main reasons we started Daystream was because of the frustration we had when looking for content on someone's wall.
I've tried to engage with Dave over the years, but he's never responded to any of my efforts. I'm not in the club, I understand that...and I'm ok with it.
I experimented with his Fargo product a few years back, and swore I'd never use anything of his again after that experience—trying to follow his projects was like trying to untangle a bowl of spaghetti before eating any of it. And then he killed it.
So, yeah, his current Daytona and Drummer projects look interesting, but I'm blissfully happy with the "idea harvester and an archive of years of writing" that Daystream has given me for over a decade. And I don't care for spaghetti much.
posted by matt in Saturday, December 25, 2021
Dave Winer celebrated his 27th anniversary of blogging today...by launching Drummer, a new blogging platform.
That's pretty cool.
I enjoy watching everything Dave does, and am a bit curious about Drummer. I'm not keen on having to log into Twitter on someone else's server to post to a blog, though. This is particularly true with the outliner setup, which is most effective when always open and at the ready (meaning, to get the benefit of the outliner setup, I'd have to stay logged into my Twitter account on someone else's server, all the time).
I've looked at it a bit. It reminds me of Dave's old Fargo platform, which I tried and liked. I haven't looked closely enough to be able to understand the differences between Fargo and Drummer (and, presumably, the advances and benefits offered by Drummer).
Worth watching.
tags: blogging
posted by matt in Sunday, October 10, 2021
Dave Winer says "people say blogging is coming back." He hopes so. I do, too.
tags: blogging
postposted by matt in Wednesday, February 24, 2021