Craig

@mmurschel.bsky.social We fans want an explanation of the picked up flag for ripping a helmet off.

Semi-regular reminder that we don’t really know who owns Bluesky and some techbroligarch could boot you at any time. You could also be silenced en masse right before an election. Do you have a “social media ‘go’ bag”?

@reckless.bsky.social One of the most annoying things about the reporting in many of the Flock stories was the lazy journalism of reprinting the Flock talking points uttered by Sheriff's or PIOs without asking the follow-up, "please cite local examples of this."

Hearing the NVidia Shield being discussed on the #VergeCast by @reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz @jp2e.bsky.social reminded me of @cranz.bsky.social enthusiastically saying "What about the Shield? The Shield is awesome." many times on past shows.

Remarkable that some people fondly miss Googles RSS reader app, already gone for over a decade. Remarkable because they captured the market, wiped out all competition (they deserved it, the products were awful) and then shut their own product down, leaving a toxic bomb crater in its place.

@cranz.bsky.social wish you were still on the Vergecast this week. Fox buying Roku is bad news for me. I have so much Roku remote muscle memory that I may need to unlearn. Thinking hardest about AppleTV hardware, but I can hear you saying, "The Shield is awesome."

Working on some #NoKings signage for this weekend. @reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz @theverge.com #TheVergecast #BrendanCarrIsADummy

Two killer Verge podcast jobs: 1. I need an ambitious SUPERVISING PRODUCER for Decoder, which is a big fun job job-boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/job... 2. We need another PRODUCER on The Vergecast, which is set to expand in fun ways this year job-boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/job...

@reckless.bsky.social partly into the Yahoo interview in my backlog and still sad over the demise of "delicious" and neglect of Flickr under previous regimes.

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

Semi-regular reminder: You don’t really know who owns Bluesky and some techbroligarch could boot you at any time. And now some techbro is apparently in charge. You could also be silenced en masse right before an election. Do you have “social media ‘go’ bag”?

@reckless.bsky.social The modular laptop talk brought back memories of my amazing old Apple "Wallstreet" PowerBook, which you're probably too young to have worked with. everymac.com/systems/appl...

@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz You mentioned sandwiches on the pod and I thought, classic XKCD time, xkcd.com/149/

Do not watch tonight’s State of the Union. Low ratings wound him. Let’s make this the least-watched SotU address ever.

@alainpoupart.bsky.social Late listen to Friday’s collective, Mandich would be on my Dolphins TE Mt. Rushmore.

Here's an explainer for "No, I won't go read your Substack." www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

In case you somehow haven't seen or heard this yet... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.

I see that ICE now has a verified presence on Bluesky. See ya elsewhere (I'm not hard to find). Remember, you don’t really know who owns Bluesky and some techbroligarch could boot you at any time. You could also be silenced en masse right before an election. Do you have “social media ‘go’ bag”?

I've replayed this like at least 10 times already today.

I read 21 books in 2025. Learn more about them on my blog. craigdidit.com/2026/01/book...

After building the WUFT year-in-review stories, I built a similar story on WRUF for its Top 10, including building the rankings from the analytics. www.wruf.com/headlines/20...

I pitched in with @wuft.org and shepherded some year-in-review content from its newsletter to its website. (Post 2 of 2) www.wuft.org/2026-01-07/t...

I pitched in with @wuft.org and shepherded some year-in-review content from its newsletter to its website. (Post 1 of 2) www.wuft.org/2026-01-06/t...

Wrote on my blog (something I don't do enough of) about my 2025 year in photos (something I didn't do enough of that year either). craigdidit.com/2026/01/phot...

If you're into spy novels, I highly recommend this conversational podcast episode from @npr.org #sourcessandmethods. I picked up three new-to-me authors for my reading list. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Remember when there used to be like 10 New Year's Day Bowl Games because ABC, NBC, and CBS all had rights and you had to channel hop? (And the Orange Bowl was played at it's rightful time at night.)

Friendly reminder on this arbitrary Gregorian boundary event that you don’t really know who owns Bluesky and that some techbroligarch could boot you at any time. Do you have “social media ‘go’ bag”?

Amazing.

This is something we all can help with. Help publishers connect their feeds to readers. Help develop their independence from big tech.

Once again, telling me that I need to pay attention to the encroaching fascism—and doing it FROM YOUR SUBSTACK—is telling me you’re not willing to do the work you’re asking everyone else to do.

Semi-regular reminder that you don’t really know who owns Bluesky and that some techbroligarch could boot you at any time. Do you have “social media ‘go’ bag”?

#UCF in all black on a sunny Florida afternoon again. 🤦‍♂️ Let’s hope they don’t melt in the second half again like before. #ChargeOn #GKCO

Very sad to see what’s happening at Indiana. The school has decided it wanted to muzzle its student newspaper to only print fluffy campus life stories in special sections. When they pushed back, the school cut all print funding and fired their staff director www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Working in tech means being comfortable with change and uncertainty. Successfully working in tech means not letting change and uncertainty paralyze you. zeldman.com/2025/09/25/h...

Black jerseys in the afternoon again, #UCF? I hope the defense doesn’t melt in the 2nd half like past times.

Afghanistan Banana Stand. 😢

Note to social media posters and journalists, there's no need to write "wrote on their Substack..." "Wrote..." will suffice and saves characters.

Annual reminder to watch this at least once this weekend for your "Labor Day Weekend Show." WWJBD? youtube.com/watch?v=eJ84ETZxhYU

@allisonjo1.bsky.social @theverge.com There's a cheap solution for the "must-have a headphone jack" hotline caller. I think those are the headphones from my iPhone 6S that I currently use with my iPhone 15 (though not a daily user).

This week approximately marks 30 years since web(master|designer|developer) became part of my job description. We launched the (corporate) site in January 1996.

Two girls were killed and two girls were critically injured when a barge hit a sailboat with five campers and a counselor from the Miami Yacht Club on it. The accident happened in Biscayne Bay near Hibiscus Island in Miami Beach.

Sad news. My siblings and I sailed through that area countless times in our many years of racing in youth sailing. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/miami...

New video surfaces of JSO traffic stop. Sheriff, "We are the cops, and you will respect our authority!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKJp...

Best in-depth reporting I've seen yet on the history of the site and the fight. "Save the Glades, Stop the Jetport" bumper stickers were on what seemed like every other car when I was a kid in Miami back then. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/07/16/b...

Wondering if one reason @cranz.bsky.social left The Verge was an objection to hour-and-a-half-long Friday Vergecasts?

Welcome to the USA of 2025, where condemning genocide is deemed antisemitism and can get you deported, but building concentration camps and calling bankers ‘Shylocks’ doesn’t get condemned by the news media at all.

Here's a photo album from my work at WUFT's Fanfares & Fireworks last night. #Fanfares25 www.flickr.com/photos/cell9...

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