408: ‘Good Enough to Be Pesky’, With Taegan Goddard

The Talk Show With John Gruber

Special guest Taegan Goddard, longtime writer and founder of Political Wire, joins the show to talk about the past, present, and future of independent media.

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Links:

  • Political Wire.
  • Greymatter — open source blogging software by Noah Grey, released in 2000.
    • Greymatter 1.8.2 User Manual.
    • Slashdot, 2022: “How The Internet Saved the Home of Blogging Pioneer Noah Grey”.
  • Mark Pilgrim, back in 2002: “History of the RSS Fork”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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