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Dems must campaign 365 days every year

This is my permanent political rant, podcast-style.The Repubs figured it out via Trump in 2016, use Twitter to campaign every day of every year.The Dems campaign intensely for a few months every four years.The rest of the time it's as if the Dems don't even take the field.They don't know what to say when they get interviewed, they mumble they don't make eye contact. It's creepy. Th

The Repubs are trying to kill you

On Bluesky, I wrote a post to Oliver Willis, who writes at Daily Kos:This podcast elaborates on that simple idea. We still have media, we don't have to wait for the leaders of the Democratic Party to tell Americans what the Repubs are doing in terms that mean something to them as people. Saying we're losing rights, or government workers are losing their jobs, or immigrants are bein

It couldn't hurt to have a better lifeboat

I posted this to both Bluesky and Mastodon just now.I see people betting on the idea of federation in Bluesky.At the same time, we should bet on simplifying Mastodon at scale.Approach the problem from both directions.We may need and not have federation in Bluesky at some point.It couldn't hurt to have a better lifeboat.This podcast goes into more depth of this idea. There is a tran

How I view WordPress

I had my first confrontation about what's stirring in the WordPress world. I've tried to record this podcast a few times before, but today it became clear that I could get embroiled in the emotions flowing around WordPress now. There's a strong community there, and the angst is familiar, I've had it myself, because the people and companies we depend on rarely live up to our expecta

Don't let ChatGPT strategize for you

It's been a while since I released a podcast so here goes..As a programming partner, ChatGPT is encyclopedic but is not good at strategy. It will drive you down blind alleys. It's also really irritating that it rewrites your code to conform to its standards. And it has a terrible memory. Forgets things you told it specifically not to forget. It does not keep promises. People who sa

We all own and no one owns podcasting

I keep having to answer the question of what I think about Podcasting 2.0, I thought I should say it clearly, in a podcast of course. 😀A lightly edited quote from this cast: "Podcasting is in trouble and needs our help and it needs good ideas that accentuate the power of having no boundaries between different voices. You can listen to my podcast and you can listen to one that co

Don't give him any ideas

"I hope this doesn't give Trump any ideas" is what I thought when I heard that the president of South Korea had out of the blue declared martial law. You probably thought it too. I decided it was time to tell the story of how we elected Trump even though we had a 4-year demo, including COVID and an attempted overthrow of the US government. We knew who he was, and we said give us m

We elected Archie Bunker

Sources Go Direct is the way everything works now. Ad dollars and gotchas are not how you get known. The only way that works is patience over long periods of time so the voters feel comfortable with the candidate. The story keeps repeating. This is how the political system works now, but the Democrats haven't adjusted to the new reality. It's past time. We need to get going before

We found the kamalahq team!

I've been saying this for twenty years -- the Dems shut down their campaign presence on the social web on Election Day, and they come back when they need our money (to give to the huge media companies for ads) and vote, and that's it. We play no role in governing. Meanwhile the other party, starting when Trump discovered Twitter, was on the air 24-by-7-by-365 every freaking year wh

A Wednesday morning ramble

We start with what didn't work about the election of 2024 as the question du jour, and the answer is basically everything. The Democratic Party is a funnel which tries to funnel what the elites think we need without triggering Jake Tapper or Maggie Haberman or the publisher of the NYT. As the Bidens discovered this is a hopeless cause, so no one liked Joe, and they didn't have a fe