Wygle Wide Web

A quiet field journal of digital archaeology. Reconstructing a life from 25+ years of digital traces, with occasional help from ChatGPT when things get weird or surprising.

  • When you have to buy a ticket or a coffee or a beer to encounter other people in neutral spaces, you lose some folks. How front porches encourage loitering (aka “community”) Source: instapaper.com

  • Pulp Fiction Infographic (via /Film) Source: slashfilm.com

  • The good news for Person X is good news for the whole street. And if it is good news for the whole street, then it’s good news for the whole world. If the gospel isn’t good news for everybody, then it isn’t good news for anybody. Rob Bell — Velvet Elvis

  • rulesformyunbornson: HOPPER. Know when to break the rules.

  • Our grass has gotten a little out of control with all the rain.

  • …there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone. Mick Jagger on the economics of music. (via Marginal Revolution) Source: marginalrevolution.com

  • The most important part of saying you’re sorry is to project some real empathy. If you can’t put yourself in your users’ shoes, then it’s going to out wrong. The BS of outage language (via 37signals) Source: 37signals.com

  • Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force shaping technology. New King of Technology – Apple Overtakes Microsoft – NYTimes.com Source: The New York Times

  • Air Canada Posters/Illustrations on the Behance Network (via gorg)

  • Do me a big favor and follow the Doxopolis blog. I promise you’ll like what you read.

    Do me a big favor and follow the Doxopolis blog. I promise you’ll like what you read.

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