Republished from the April 23, 2018 Newsletter. The medium is the message and our mediums are shaping the messages we’re willing to share. The allure of the algorithmic feed is that it shows more relevant information to individual users. However, it maps very poorly with how people WANT the services to act. For example, I […]
The Passing of CATACA
Our cat, CATACA, died suddenly yesterday. She was acting normally and seemingly fine and then in the span of an hour she was gone. I found her lying on the ground her stomach heaving. Within a half hour we had her packed up to get to an emergency vet. My wife took her there and […]
Newsletter April 9, 2018
Here are the Other Local Newsletters You Should be Reading Ed’s Vacuum newsletter for 2018-W14, Issue 5 (new series) George’s Roundup, April 6 The CivCity Initiative Spring Scrimmage for Local Civics! Reader and RSS Anil Dash tweeted a sentiment that resonated a lot with me: Google’s decision to kill Google Reader was a turning point […]
Newsletter April 2, 2018
Newsletters, Local Newsletter Type Things Ed’s Vacuum newsletter for 2018-W13, Issue 4 is a good one. Lots of items of local Ann Arbor interest, and also one about multimeters! And George wrote a roundup! The tweet he shares in there made me a very angry online person. Internet, Ownership If I had a mission statement […]
Internet, Ownership
Republished from the April 2, 2018 Newsletter. If I had a mission statement right now it’d be this: more people exhibiting more ownership over more of what they produce online. Right now we’ve swung almost entirely to allowing social media to own everything about our activity online: both in terms of consumption and production. Social […]
Newsletter: March 26, 2018
Ed is up to three. Go, Ed! Twitter (and Facebook) Break I’m–well before I tweet about this–on a twitter break. Facebook too, but that’s less of a compulsion for me. It’s good to take breaks. Whenever I take a break it’s a good 24 hours for my brain to stop thinking in 140-240ish character likeable […]
Newsletter: March 19, 2018
I like what Ed is doing over on Github with his weekly newsletter and joked that about doing fork of it (can you fork just a concept?). I’m still pretty bullish on the personal blog as a format hence here vs. GitHub. Ed validated that going through your twitter feed is a good format for […]
Ypsi-Arbor D&D Gazette: Follow Up
We’ve officially crossed over a threshold in which there are subscribers to the Gazette that I don’t recognize by their email addresses. That’s an incredible thing, and also a bit scary! A few submissions have trickled in as well and they have exceeded expectations. Send yours in too! I promise it’s good enough. Read more […]
Ypsi-Arbor D&D Gazette: A Zine
TL;DR: The Ypsi-Arbor D&D Gazette is a zine for empherma, stories, art, and other whatnot from the tables of Dungeons & Dragons players in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and surrounding cities. You can sign up to hear more about it and get a digital copy when it comes out in April here: Subscribe to Receive the […]
Holiday One Shot
In early 2017 I ran a one-shot tabletop game that repurposed the story of A Christmas Carol and some rules from D&D 5e. It was quite fun! I can’t wait to run it again next year! Overview of What it Was The players were all newly deceased spirits in purgatory who had been assigned to […]