Notes

I read this on Dave Winer’s Scripting Newsthis morning.

The siloers are probably scrambling to find a way for the AI to run inside their world, mistake – instead they should be trying to tear down the silo, and become the default version of whatever it was meant to be wrt the web. Both Bluesky and WordPress find themselves in the same quagmire. Probably a lot of others do, but this is the area I study.

This is the intuition we all had, coming to fruition. Evolution is something we haven’t seen much of in the software world since 2006 or so. Incredible stagnation because of the dominance of the social web. We lost the software web. All the focus was on personalities, celebrity – hype and 99.999% bullshit. It was a 20 year period where all that happened was scaling.

Dave is someone who’s work has fundamentally changed how I engage with information via RSS and podcasts. I think he’s on to something here.