In 1995, a teenager launched a website on his ISP’s FTP server. Not a unique experience in 1995.
But what is unique is that his site is still around. It's @newgrounds.com!
For @fastcompany.com I talk to @tomfulp.newgrounds.com about Newgrounds turning 30.
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Ernie Smith
Ernie Smith
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Editor of Tedium (tedium.co), freelance writer, pop-up search engine maven (udm14.com).
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Just heard we lost a typography legend. RIP Jim Parkinson, who designed your favorite news nameplate.
Oh, and the Rolling Stone logo.
The obvious solution to this problem is to start working on things yourself. I modified an Obsidian plugin for Mastodon so I could post threads on Bluesky.
I need to finish it and clean it up, but it works. I have been posting some pretty cool threads with it.
Get past the fear factor.
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One more thing on this. Given my connection to Bluesky, every week multiple people ping me with some variation of "I can't believe Bluesky doesn't ...
“No amount of word salad is going to hide the fact that you’re killing successful products for seemingly no good reason.”
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The more schools that speak up, the harder this stance is to maintain. And he has a track record of folding on stuff like this given the right level of public pressure, so Harvard doing this is a good sign.