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Hospital ratings dive and medical errors rise when private equity firms are in charge.
Who could have guessed that venture capital would be bad for hospitals? It's been so good for everything else.
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
The #IndieWeb community uses an h-feed microformat to represent a feed within HTML. It works really well when your site is already marked up with microformats. Unfortunately, not a lot of sites implement it and those that do, get it wrong a lot.
Testing my new #MicroPub client.
Oops, sorry, just saw this. (I guess I need to work on my #webmention receiver). I've been using client I wrote for myself for a couple years and this new one is a 2.0 of that client with a much improved design and a bit of cleanup of the backend code.
I get sites not having an “RSS” for “Feed” link on their website while actually having an RSS feed. I don’t like it, but I get it. Maybe they picked an off-the-shelf t…
Are there any OpenGraph tags (or anything similar) to indicate posts in a series or maybe just a single followup post? So, for instance, a news outlet can post an news story and then a few months later, they can write a followup post and update the original with links to the followup. That way social media sites that are using OpenGraph for previews could indicate that there’s been an update to the post.
AudioEye has dropped its lawsuit against me as part of a settlement agreement. The specific legal details are at the end of this post. Index for this post: Joint Statement Impact, Abridged SLAPP Everybody Lost Legal Details Wrap-up Related Joint Statement The Parties are AudioEye and me, and this is…
Ignore this post. It's just here so I can #test updates with my new #MicroPub client
Thoughts on Meta adding ActivityPub to Threads
A lot of ppl write about how they wish blogs had better reply functionality and that's why blogging will always lose out to social media. They may list solutions to blog replies and even include #webmentions but say none of those solve the problem the way they want. But what do they want?
Social media is usually someone else's software running on someone else's computer. You don't control your data. With self-hosted decentralized social media, like the #fediverse, you can control your data but most others are still using someone else's service and don't control their data.
Blogs are still the best way for individuals to express their thoughts while retaining control of them. And webmentions allow for those separate, decentralized blogs to reply to each other. Social software bundles various affordances into one easy-to-use package that hides most of its drawbacks. If CMS's received the same level of polish, they could be far superior for an individual. Blogging/webmentions still need to work to make them useful for most people, but they're already here and they solve the main problem people have in the space. We just need to build the tools to use them.
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Great idea! I'm more of a fan of the #indieweb style of linking where you use a link tag or Link header instead of a prescribed URL, but I like this too. I'll probably do both on my site.