Hiatus
There will be little or no posting from this corner until next week. Hope everybody's enjoying their summer...
meta
i’m thinking of moving wmtc to substack
I'm thinking about moving wmtc to Substack.Wmtc has been on Blogger since July of 2004, starting out life as wemovetocanada.blogspot.com, then wmtc.blogspot.com, and finally wmtc.ca. I briefly tried to move…
i’m thinking of moving wmtc to substack
I'm thinking about moving wmtc to Substack.Wmtc has been on Blogger since July of 2004, starting out life as wemovetocanada.blogspot.com, then wmtc.blogspot.com, and finally wmtc.ca. I briefly tried to move…
why i’m not letter-writing this year, part 2: the sad tale of the lost comments
In my previous post, I mentioned that I'm not participating in Write for Rights this year, for the first time in more than 15 years. This decision propelled me to…
Meta Doesn’t Like Me
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,/ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit/ Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,/ Nor all thy Tears wash out…
Public health and corporate iniquity
Forty-one states and the District of Columbia have sued Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, accusing it of using features that hook children to its platforms even as…
Meta’s Temper Tantrum Is Partisan Politicking
So, if you use Facebook and reside in Canada, by now you’ve noticed that anything resembling news articles are being blocked. At first, you might look at it and say…
something strange going on with this blog: a sad update
I was so excited. I thought all the thousands of lost comments might be coming back. Now I am let down all over again. A few weeks ago, I noted…
something strange (but good) is going on with this blog
In early 2020, I lost a wmtc post that was important to me and had a lot of comments. Allan and I were able to re-post the post itself, but…
a note about subscribing to wmtc by email
This is an note for wmtc readers subscribe to the blog by email. Zoho, the service I am now using to handle the wmtc mailing list, allows three “campaigns” (sends)…
new email list manager: switching from mailchimp to zoho
Mailchimp recently announced that it is changing its free plan, reducing the number of contacts and sends that can be managed for free. Wmtc will no longer qualify for the…
Migration in progress
After using Twitter as my main political social media outlet for years, I’ve joined the many in the process of shifting to Mastodon. You’ll find a link to my account…
housekeeping complete
* The best-of page has been updated to 2021. * The links on that page are working again. * Internal links on multi-part posts are also working again — i.e.…
housekeeping in progress: apologies for possibly sending old posts
For a very long time, old links on this blog have not worked. This has always bothered me. It’s bad enough that I lost many thousands of comments (2006 through…
Light blogging ahead
Don’t expect much from this space for the next week-plus. Enjoy your summer in the meantime!
using mailchimp for subscribe-by-email is no longer working
If you subscribed to this blog through the widget on the sidebar, that service is no longer working. Mailchimp’s free option has a cap on sends — not only how…
how i resolved the feedburner (subscribe by email) issue: mailchimp
A while back, Blogger announced that it will no longer support the subscribe-by-email widget. This means readers who receive blog updates by email will no longer receive them. I posted…
subscribe-by-email is going away. bloggers, what are you going to use instead?
Blogger will soon stop supporting the function that allows readers to subscribe to blogs via email. This is occurring because Google is killing Feedburner. Like the deceased Google Reader, Feedburner…
Leaving Las Metas
Is the act of removing myself from Meta’s walled hellscape — deleting Facebook and Instagram — a kind of digital suicide? What will happen when… The post Leaving Las Metas…