You can invent and evolve a new sport if you have all the elements. If you've got enough players, a venue, journalists, fans. If you want to change the rules, you don't need to get anyone's approval, you just need a vision, and you have to do the work. #
That's how I got blogging going. I had tools for writing, and reading, and I generated feeds myself because I am a writer. #
I don't have to wait to find a writer who will try out my latest ideas. Or get a feed reader to support the feature, or have editing tools so that other people can do it. #
With RSS 2.0, I was intimidated when big companies and VCs got in the way. #
In the future I'll keep cruising because I know I have a better sense of what's needed than they do because they just hire bored employees to work on my ideas. None of them have the guts, curiousity or frankly enough intelligence to work with the person who put it together. #
Learned that lesson after twenty years of stagnation in RSS-Land. No more of that. #
One thing I expect a Markdown processor to do for me is to evaluate emoji short codes.#
Things like :hello: -- like this -- 😆💜💖☝️ :trollface:#
Observation -- it's weird to type Markdown knowing you will not be able to edit the result, because tweets are not editable.#
But I do think this is interesting. The idea of writing a thread in Twitter that can then be read in a nice format in a feed reader. That's the point. 😄#
NPR this morning did the ultimate unforgivable "both sides" horse-race bs -- they labeled people who support [Roe v Wade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade) as extremists and wondered if such extremism will cause the Democrats to lose in November. #
Journalism will let the center go where ever the Repubs want to put it. #
Now Roe is extreme, last month it was the settled law, according to all but one of the Supreme Court justices (publicly, privately they were ready to destroy it). #
The problem isn't Repubs, they're just taking what we're letting them have. #
The problem is journalism and the Democratic Party, but even more broadly the problem is we don't put a stop to this and tell the Dems clearly that they have to get real, or we won't re-elect them. #
You can invent and evolve a new sport if you have all the elements. If you've got enough players, a venue, journalists, fans. If you want to change the rules, you don't need to get anyone's approval, you just need a vision, and you have to do the work. #
That's how I got blogging going. I had tools for writing, and reading, and I generated feeds myself because I am a writer. #
I don't have to wait to find a writer who will try out my latest ideas. Or get a feed reader to support the feature, or have editing tools so that other people can do it. #
With RSS 2.0, I was intimidated when big companies and VCs got in the way. #
In the future I'll keep cruising because I know I have a better sense of what's needed than they do because they just hire bored employees to work on my ideas. None of them have the guts, curiousity or frankly enough intelligence to work with the person who put it together. #
Learned that lesson after twenty years of stagnation in RSS-Land. No more of that. #
One thing I expect a Markdown processor to do for me is to evaluate emoji short codes.#
Things like :hello: -- like this -- 😆💜💖☝️ :trollface:#
Observation -- it's weird to type Markdown knowing you will not be able to edit the result, because tweets are not editable.#
But I do think this is interesting. The idea of writing a thread in Twitter that can then be read in a nice format in a feed reader. That's the point. 😄#
NPR this morning did the ultimate unforgivable "both sides" horse-race bs -- they labeled people who support [Roe v Wade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade) as extremists and wondered if such extremism will cause the Democrats to lose in November. #
Journalism will let the center go where ever the Repubs want to put it. #
Now Roe is extreme, last month it was the settled law, according to all but one of the Supreme Court justices (publicly, privately they were ready to destroy it). #
The problem isn't Repubs, they're just taking what we're letting them have. #
The problem is journalism and the Democratic Party, but even more broadly the problem is we don't put a stop to this and tell the Dems clearly that they have to get real, or we won't re-elect them. #
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