Uploaded the session video for Micro Camp’s State of Micro.blog panel. The website now has YouTube links for the sessions, including our interview with Christina Warren.
I posted the video of our conversation with Christina Warren at Micro Camp 2024! We talk about early blogging, how social media is changing, whether it’s actually easier to get started now, podcasting, what we should focus on as the social web grows, and more.
I took the demo portion from yesterday’s panel and uploaded it to YouTube as a separate 6-minute video clip. This shows the new replies curation and reply text box features.
Thanks everyone who joined us for Micro Camp! I’m going to edit the videos and put them online this weekend, but the live broadcasts are on YouTube in the meantime.
The chat on help.micro.blog is now open. This will be the back channel for the live broadcasts during Micro Camp 2024.
It’s going to be a busy day, but I wanted to pause to note two movies I watched this week and really enjoyed, for completely different reasons: Molly’s Game and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. I’m still amazed that Marcel was funded with such an obvious singular vision, unlike anything I’ve seen. 🍿
Trying out the new pinned, columns interface on Threads. It’s quite good. Fixes the minor gripes I had with clicking too much to get to the following list or replies.
Questions about blogging or Micro.blog? We’ll be answering questions at Micro Camp, from the chat tomorrow or you can submit a question anytime on this form.
We’re keeping things simple with Micro Camp this year: no email list, no registration. I did add a time zone helper link and an “Add to calendar” button on micro.camp, to make it easier not to miss when the livestream starts.
We have some great door prizes for Micro Camp tomorrow! 🎟️
Micro Camp is… tomorrow! 🤯 It’s extra micro this year, so if you blink you might miss it. Hope everyone can join us for a keynote conversation with Christina Warren and then the State of Micro.blog, announcing a couple new features, and Q&A. Starts 11:45am Pacific time.
The new Wicked trailer was released today. High expectations for this one. No doubt the music will be great, just hope they get the rest right too.
Finished reading: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree. I’ll read almost any book about books. Something was missing in this one compared to Legends & Lattes, through. 📚
Google eventually turning their home page into ChatGPT is a rare opening for something new in traditional web search. It’s not a certainty that AI assistants and web search will be a single tool. They can have very different purposes: one looking for answers, one looking for things to read or use.
This post on The Verge assumes that AI hallucinations should be fixed, but generative AI is like a human assistant: helpful, sometimes wrong. The fixable issue is actually perception and UX, giving a false sense of confidence. Google will likely make this worse with “definitive” answers in search.
Further evidence from The New York Times that the November election will be largely decided by people who are objectively ignorant. There’s no way to sugarcoat it.
"Nearly one in five voters in battleground states says that President Biden is responsible for ending the constitutional right to abortion, a new poll found, despite the fact that he supports abortion rights and that his opponent Donald J. Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices who made it possible to overturn Roe v. Wade."
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/upshot/abortion-biden-trump-blame.html
Ben Thompson in today’s update on Google I/O:
"What was much more dubious and vaporware-y were actual new products. And, frankly, this isn’t a surprise: one’s take on Google before the AI revolution would have been that the company can operate at scale like no other, but has lost the capacity to innovate; at the risk of confirmation bias, that was exactly the takeaway I had from much of this keynote."
I wonder if there’s a disconnect with Google’s ad-based business not knowing how to turn research into products.
https://stratechery.com/2024/google-i-o-googles-strengths-and-weaknesses-ai-search/
A couple months ago on Core Int, I said we were at peak Apple. With every week, I believe that more strongly. Apple has been an inspiration for me for 30 years. A massive success. I think this is as good as it gets for them. They are simply too big to fundamentally rethink anything for what’s next.
https://coreint.org/2024/03/episode-593-californias-pretty-nice/
Finder on iPad https://www.manton.org/2024/05/15/finder-on-ipad.html
My superpower and greatest weakness is not letting the need for a major refactor get in the way of shipping something new. Beautiful code is nice, but too many developers forget the goal is user experience, not developer experience.