Feature request for Facebook re Instant Articles

Now that the IA is out, here’s a feature request from a blogger.

Please make it so that the IA rendering of a post is the one you display in the web version of Facebook.

Dangling your feet

I’ve been listening to the West Wing podcast. A new one comes out today. I love the show. It’s well done. The two hosts don’t indulge in giggly inside jokes, which kills other podcasts (notably the FiveThirtyEight podcast and The Americans, though the last episode of the latter was an exception…

Instant Articles is for bloggers

It’s worth noting that Instant Articles support is now available to everyone, including bloggers.

I’ve had Instant Articles emanating from Scripting News for a few months now. It was pretty easy to support, took about a week, but that was early…

Is the future of news the future?

I’ve been to a few future-of-news conferences over the years and they’re fairly predictable, like most conferences of artists, they quickly focus on money. You would think or hope they’d focus on great new ways to use the technology to further the art, but instead they…

Cheer up Bernie!

I was listening to the Brian Lehrer show this morning on WNYC. The first segment started with an audio excerpt from the NY Daily News interview with candidate Bernie Sanders. They asked what would happen with Chase or BofA after they were broken up, and Sanders says that would be up to them.

Scoble, the web still wants you back!

One year ago today I bought a domain, scoble.org, and parked a site there saying Scoble, the open web wants you back!

I wrote a post on Facebook (because I know he reads Facebook) and of course on my blog, saying that when he opened up…

A PolitiFact for unanswered questions

It would be smart if there were an organization like PolitiFact that accumulated important questions that the candidates haven’t answered. For Clinton, an example might be “Where are the transcripts of the speeches you gave at Goldman Sachs?” For Trump: “Where are…

Programming note

If you’ve found the Like function on Scripting News isn’t working, it might be because I moved the CMS behind the site, and it’s the CMS that implements the Like function.

The simple workaround is to Sign off and sign back on again. Try the Like function. If it works, I’ll…

Is futuristic contrarian?

A friend in the tech business who I will not name (so as not to embarrass) said, in passing, that I had “contrarian” views.

I had to think about that. Of course to me my views feel anything but contrary.