IndieWeb – Clif Graves

Goodby Railroad Square Cinema

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021IndieWeb

The RR2, like most movie houses, has been closed for a year now and has no expected reopening date. As it says on the Waterville Creates website, “Due to the current pandemic, all in-person programming has been suspended.” Because part of the plan (depending on fund raising) is to move the cinema to downtown...

Starlink offers what?

February 10, 2021February 12, 2021IndieWeb, Space, Tech

I was excited about Starlink. Internet from space seems to be hugely kool. Very future. But my thought is that Starlink is currently too expensive. Not that hugely faster internet might be nice, but for most of us we may not see it as worth the price (or even see a difference much of...

The standard WordPress editor for WordPress.com users will be retired June 1 – or not.

May 30, 2020February 6, 2021IndieWeb, WordPress

There is a discussion ( here ) that starts with “On June 1 we’ll be retiring our older WordPress.com editor and transitioning to the more recent (and more powerful) WordPress block editor.” But that is only true in the broadest sense. The blog post seems intentionally misleading to ‘force’ folks into using the not...

Is WordPress a monopoly, Should we care?

October 4, 2019October 4, 2019IndieWeb

An interesting discussion is happening in a number of places. Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg are the force behind WordPress. Sure WordPress is open source but the platform is mostly controlled by Automattic. The move to adopt their Gutenberg editor in WordPress is a case in point. It is from my point of...

The Wave of Time

October 1, 2019October 4, 2019IndieWeb

The Wave of Time Edited by Clif Graves Do we simply ride the wave of time, like a piece of flotsam on the ocean? Do we get thrown up on the ever-changing shore of a future that was always there? Do we create the future by our actions, or do we have no control...

Caught by reCAPTCHA?

August 6, 2019August 6, 2019IndieWeb, Tech

The article on TheStoic.me There is no evil like reCAPTCHA (v3) Takes an interesting look at the value behind the "are you Human" testing that so many sites use. I have always had mixed feelings about the usefulness of these kind of tests. Presumably a computer cannot answer them but only us humans can....

Is Facebook just the new AOL?

July 31, 2019July 31, 2019IndieWeb, Tech

I have has a website for ages. I have Facebook and Twitter. How do these all fit together. Back in the day, there was something called AOL. You logged into AOL and it was all there articles, messages to friends, interest groups, photos and videos. Then a strange thing happened. AOL let you access...