The only thing missing from this Gawker report from Neetzan Zimmerman is a shark fin underneath the picture of the jumping cat.
It was really only a matter of time until someone, somewhere thought it would be a great idea to launch a film festival for Internet cat videos, and that countdown is now officially over.
/facepalm
It’s neat the kinds of blogs that I can run into in a day of helping WordPress.com users.
So if you ever wanted to see a collection of Missed Connections posts on Craigslist specifically dealing with Walmart, this WordPress.com blog has got you covered because the author is collecting the best of them so you don’t have to.
On reading them I both do and don’t want these to be from real people instead of cleverly-written Craigslist satire. If you read the blog I am pretty sure you will be similarly conflicted.
This is either the most awesome thing I will see this week or the worst. I haven’t decided yet.
There’s lots of talk going on early this week about Twitter and their intentions towards third-party clients. Will they permit them? Will Tweetbot still be around in six months? How am I going to connect with other people if Twitter goes the Facebook route and makes me use official clients that aren’t as nice as the third-party ones I have now?
I was going to write a bunch of words about this, but in the end it comes down to something very simple.
Your blog has always loved you. Open—or at least agreed-upon and widely used—standards are not going to magically grow walls and keep you or others out.
WordPress. RSS. Comments. Pingbacks.
Digging deeper: PHP. MySQL. Apache/Nginx. Linux.
These things don’t belong to someone else. They don’t belong to a company that needs to please its investors. They don’t have reasons to keep you out or to stop you from doing what you want.
They belong to you. You use them to make great things. You contribute to them and make not only your stuff, but other people’s stuff, better. You use them to read others’ content and to enter the discussion. If your blog hasn’t been the center of your digital presence, why not?
Your blog has always loved you.
I hope you are paying attention.
You do, if only for tracks like this:
(One of the few pieces of music from a game that has actually moved me to tears and still triggers an emotional response when I hear it.)
Another great set of work by Sam Hulick. I’ve enjoyed his work on the Mass Effect series and though I hope he gets the chance to do more there, am looking forward to what he does next.
Ryan Markel 