👋 Hi! It’s Dan York. And I wanted to let you all know that you’ll be getting this newsletter from a different email system now.

I’ve decided to move away from Substack and instead host this newsletter on WordPress.com . Substack may be a fine platform for people looking to host a commercial newsletter…

… but I’m not looking to do that.

All I want to do is share my views on the future with those of you who want to come along for the ride. And I found the amount of nagging dialog boxes on Substack to be REALLY annoying! It’s not a great user experience, in my opinion, and I don’t want to annoy you all. So let’s try this!

IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHY YOU ARE RECEIVING THIS EMAIL, you probably signed up way back at the beginning of this newsletter in the 2000s. Please feel free to just hit the UNSUBSCRIBE link at the bottom of the message! No hard feelings.. I get it. You haven’t heard from me in 3 years other than a message back in February. Life changes.

As part of this change I’m also exploring a new way to write these newsletters. Every morning our wonderful miniature poodle wakes us up around 4:30 or 5:00am. She’s 16 years old and highly unlikely to change (we’ve tried!!) and so I just roll with it. After I’ve let her out to do her thing, I usually just sit with a cup of tea and catch up on social networks (Mastodon for me), Techmeme, Memeorandum, and other similar sites.

Instead of just being a passive consumer of info, I’m thinking I may start to turn that time into a time of creation. I’m an early morning person and I’m wide awake once I’m up.

I’m also trying Automattic’s WordPress and JetPack apps on my iPad to see if that will help me get more into the routine of sending these out.

So we’ll see! You may start getting more of these messages coming at you.

Meanwhile, if you are looking to follow me or connect with me, the best place these days is Mastodon: danyork@mastodon.social

See you soon,
Dan

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Disclaimer: This newsletter is a personal project I’ve been doing since 2007, several years before I joined the Internet Society in 2011. While I may at times mention information or activities from the Internet Society, all viewpoints are my personal opinion and do not represent any formal positions or views of the Internet Society. This is just me, saying some of the things on my mind.