I just noticed some behavior on Twitter that I find rather revolting.

An author decided to post an entire blog-post's worth of material (as replies) to their Twitter stream.

Which under normal circumstances I can appreciate and relate. I've had ideas that were started on Twitter and because a series …

I can see why companies in the "tax preparation" service are reluctant to just let the government figure things out:

• Fee for the software (because navigating the tax code is for chumps).
• Fee for the state versions (because just filing federal is for chumps)
• Fee for e-filing the state version …

This afternoon I was putting away a physical copy of Civilization V when I spied (with my little eye) some competing video games from a publisher that I shall not name.

Said publisher is local to me, and I've long wanted to support them, but unfortunately the only way I …

One of the things I wish would move out of common usage is the whole "insert-name-here" mode of communication.

Standard communication:

Bob: Hey, how's it going?

Alice: Good, how are you doing?

"insert name here" communication:

Bob: Hey Alice, how are you doing?

Alice: Great Bob, how are you doing …

This piece shows why I still regularly blog, and why I went through the pain of changing over from Wordpress to Pelican. We need to save the independent places of creativity and thought.

The Web We Have to Save