(Ed. Note: "Meta" is a tag for a blog post about blogging. It has nothing to do with Facebook, the antithesis of blogging.)

Bix offers some very worthwhile thoughts about comments in blogs. The marmot doesn't offer comments, but welcomes thoughts and opinions, even if I only read them in others' blogs. Sometimes not even then. I know James is still reading the marmot, because he followed me on Flickr after I blogged about Flickr. It's possible to carry on a discussion in an asynchronous, distributed, decentralized fashion where friction is a feature, not a bug.

Manton points to Matt Mullenwegg's birthday wish, which is hereby granted.

Garret shares his appreciation to Christopher Butler for "being normal." Subscribed. And this is how "discovery" works.

Michael Tsai points to a "mere civilian" regarding discontent with connectors. Also subscribed. Another discovery. (The "hand" emoji is the about page, or colophon.)

AKMA is back in Britain and is apparently dressing his dogs in troll outfits. (Pics or it didn't happen.)

Shelley keeps us up to date on what she's reading, in RSS and on Mastodon.

That's the magic of RSS, folks.

Still some signs of life in the blogosphere. I'm guessing we're at the base level of the ecosystem. Micro-organisms, fungi, unseen but ubiquitous and likely essential to all the "higher" organisms.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 07:08 Thursday, 4 January 2024