Last month Sssluke asked about websites that are created as artworks themselves. Not about art, the actual art. I’ve written before about the early net.art movement in which a bunch of artists looked at the (at that time) new word wide web as a medium itself, browsers as canvas and html as paint, and asked… Continue reading Websites as Art
Hi Crowd! Search is cooked. Which might mean the internet as we know is about to very different. That’s a bold claim, but hear me out. If you are not someone who makes your livelihood by posting things on the internet it may come as a surprise to you that publishers have a somewhat complicated… Continue reading The Crowd 315: Searching
Hi Crowd! It all goes well this is the first native Crowd post from my own website that’s automagically crossposting to Substack. I’m using this wp-substack plugin in conjunction with this wpsubstack Chrome extension to make it work. As I’ve written before I’m somewhat ambivalent about Substack as a thing for any number of reasons… Continue reading The Crowd 314: Substacked
Hi Crowd! You’ve probably seen any number of headlines recently about autonomous AI’s hacking various systems after “breaking out of their sandboxes” or “using secret message boards to coordinate with each other” and you may or may not have understood what that meant or if it was as important as people are making it seem.… Continue reading The Crowd 313: In The Sandbox
Hi Crowd! Not a thing I expected to be doing in 2026, but here we are. It’s no secret that I have a complicated relationship with my devices. I love what they can do, what I can do with them, hate what they make me do, and the reliance on them. I daydream about simpler… Continue reading The Crowd 312: Live Transmission
Chris Burden was shot. That is the physical fact of what happened. We can build on that statement by adding that his friend pulled the trigger, that this took place in an art gallery, that an audience was in attendance. None of that changes the fact that Chris Burden was shot. Here’s the video: We… Continue reading Shooting Artists & Burning Punks
Hi Crowd! for some reason The Algorithm presented me with this post earlier today with this snip from an interview with Naval Ravikant where he’s talking about his schedule, or rather his lack of one. “I read a blog post by Marc Andreessen where he said don’t keep a schedule. And I took that to… Continue reading The Crowd 311: Less Than Available
Hi Crowd! Over the weekend I saw that Nick Gray launched slashfriends in an attempt to get people to add a /friends page to their websites. The basic idea is that this is like an old school blogroll or webring, which fellow olds may remember was how we used to find interesting people on the… Continue reading The Crowd 310: Friends
Hi Crowd! I’ve been thinking a lot about narratives and how stories are told and what the public walks away with recently so perhaps it’s fitting that the first thing I have to tell you about is ALIEN: PARADISE which is a fan made edit combining Prometheus and Covenant into a single film as well… Continue reading The Crowd 309: Rewriting Narratives
Hi Crowd! Today the USA turns 250 years old. Our relationship has always been a bit complicated. I recognize that the divide between what the United States of America promised to be and what it’s become is far wider than many want to admit. Honestly it has been since the beginning. But I also hold… Continue reading The Crowd 308: The USA 250