The Big Question of our time – what will replace Twitter, is on a lot of our minds. A number of new social media sites have appeared in the last 6 months. Post.news, Hive, Tribel, Spoutible…the list will no doubt get longer. These sites all adhere to the Twitter model of Everything In One Site. Whether they will reach critical mass, and whether they can scale to have a good user experience, I have no […]
Mastodon. Oh yeah. Mastodon (sigh) Read More »
At the end of 2022 I published a post about changes in my social media strategy. At the time, I intended to transition off of Twitter, where I had several accounts. It was already obvious that Elon Musk had no understanding of how to manage a social media platform, and probably did not care in any case, because he had (and still has) other motives. As we can all see, Twitter’s reliability and functional integrity
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So there was Belem Knight, hammering away excitedly on bits and pieces of Silverdale Academy, the latest idea that he stole from under my inattentive nose. Then he comes to me this morning, with a good question: The idea is about an exclusive girls’ finishing school, but have you looked into the economics of such a venture? Could you actually run a school like this in the 2030s in California and actually make a profit?
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Silverdale Academy is a spin-off book from New Society. As is usual, Rupert dreamed up Silverdale, and then Belem rubbed his hands in glee and said “I’m going to write about this place”. So off he went, and was soon typing. Now there is a novel in work. In this prologue from Silverdale Academy, Patrick, until recently a run-of-the-mill, bored primary care physician in South Monterey, heads off to his new primary day job at Silverdale. However, it
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