Very late, because January's downtime was almost all-encompassing. No regrets.

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This is Part I of a two-part rant about podcasting. It was triggered by Tim Chambers linking to the summary podcast stats at Listen Notes. This part asks what the fediverse might do for podcasting. Part II will look back in an attempt to understand how we (I) got here.

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Small badge that reads “written by human not by AI”

There’s an interesting discussion going on in the IndieWeb chat forums about signalling that your website does not use AI. JamesG, for example, displays a badge on each post (though not on his home page, that reads “written by human not by AI” and that links through to a site that explains why such a badge is a good thing: “make sure humanity continues to advance”.

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Arrived at our holiday destination to find a package that I have been longing for, although I will just have to delay gratification a little longer. A pair of Silver shifters from Rivendell. Totally unnecessary, a complete indulgence. The plastic Shimano shifters on the Raleigh work perfectly well,...

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It's nice of Jim Nielsen to suggest that blogging is like composting, but I'm not sure I fully agree that my current failure-to-ship of a rotten banana is worth writing about, except of course that I am now writing about it, tangentially.

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