Post flow

A watershed* is land that drains through a river to the sea or into an inland body of water. That’s what came to mind for me when I read this from Dave Winer:
If you want to help the open web, when you write something you’re proud of on a social web site like Bluesky or Mastodon, also post it to your blog. Not a huge deal but every little bit helps.#
I love the idea of using one’s blog (as Dave does) as the personal place to collect what one posts on various social media. So the flow, which we might call a postshed (would post shed be better because it’s easier to read?) is from social media clouds into one’s own river of blog posts. (Maybe postflow would be better. I invite better nouns and/or verbs.)
So I’ll try doing some of that flow today. Here goes:
On X I pointed to Death as a Feature, which was my response six years ago to Elon Musk’s Martian ambitions. This was in response Doge Designer tweeting “Elon Musk is projected to become world’s first trillionaire. He said ‘My plan is to use the money to get humanity to Mars & preserve the light of consciousness,” to which Elon’s reply was, “That’s the goal.”
On Threads (and perhaps on other federated media, if that works): Besides Blue Ridge Public Radio bpr.org (which is great) what else should we tune in to hear what’s happening in the flooded parts of Western North Carolina? The best answer is any iHeart station in the region, over the air or on the iHeart app. I’m listening right now to WWNC/570.
On Facebook: Due to popular request (by one person, but not the first), I’ve put a pile of headshots up here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/albums/72177720312529167/
Also on Facebook, While I was never a fan of his teams (I swang with the Mets), I loved watching Pete Rose play baseball. He was truly great. RIP, Charlie Hustle. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/sports/baseball/pete-rose-baseball-star-who-earned-glory-and-shame-dies-at-83.html
*Wikipedia calls watersheds “drainage basins.” Not appetizing.
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