Podcast Episodes

WordLand, the timeline and checkboxes

I'm in the homestretch on the next release of WordLand. This version has approximately twice as many features as the last one. Because, like Radio Us…

6 months ago

A new model for blog discourse

When I started blogging, early on, I had a different system for discourse.

Here's how it worked:

First each post would go out via email to a group of…

6 months, 1 week ago

Why blogging lost to Twitter and other folk songs

I'm starting to roll up the user interface of the new product, and so it's time to start talking about the features that are coming, and also let's t…

6 months, 1 week ago

Last chance for the open web

I wrote a blog post last week about WordPress and the open web, and what I want to do there. It's the first time I've laid out in one place my plan f…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

A podcast from post-Katrina New Orleans.

I recorded this podcast in New Orleans on December 16, 2005. I had just spent three days there, visiting New Orleans and the Gulf coast of Mississipp…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Bird fight in the pond

My house has a view of a pond, which is endlessly interesting, year-round, through all seasons.

And we have all the seasons here in the Catskill Moun…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Just answer the question, please, dear ChatGPT

Dave Winer explores his frustrations with ChatGPT's tendency to overcomplicate simple programming tasks. What should be a straightforward request for…

7 months, 1 week ago

A podcast user's API

On Thursday I wrote: "It would be interesting if Pocket Casts had an API. I would love to be able to one-click subscribe to a podcast in my feed read…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Wired and Harvard, big change still coming

I've been thinking a lot about Harvard lately, and a revealing podcast interview with the top editorial person at Wired.

Elon Musk wasn't over-expose…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

AI should behave like a computer

"Behave like a computer. That's where we start."

ChatGPT is not a programming partner, it's a very fantastic improvement over search engines. That's r…

7 months, 2 weeks ago