Growing Awareness of Techrights' Importance
Also our contribution to national security and sovereignty aspects (many Brits are increasingly sceptical of Americans' control over our media - e.g. a Google US executive controlling BBC, the BBC taking bribes from Bill Epsteingate, and Americans controlling the BBC's reporting by SLAPPs)
Today was a very enjoyable day because of the weather, which was exceptionally nice (same tomorrow). We all need breaks from computers sometimes. We also need breaks from reality (rest, proper rest) and this year I sleep more than I've slept in the past 20 years (I began budgeting my sleep when I was about 20). Last year I noticed that sleeping more results in lower rates of typos and other errors. So why the heck not?
This year is the first of 5 years in which we tell our stories and others' stories (e.g. EPO, Dr. Stallman, IBM insiders). Instead of book-like form/s we've chosen to do several series - some long, some short - with installments that give people time to "digest" or feed back to us some input for later installments.
Writing has long been a passion of mine and being proficient at coding helps cover technical matters, which means it's not primarily about prose, it's first and foremost about analysis and interdisciplinary powwows, which I have with people every day (we try to form new ideas, then formulate them sensibly).
Each year the importance of Techrights as an information hub grows, at the very least judging by the magnitude of the audience. We're not an individual's blog but a community project - a collective that mostly thinks alike and more important thinks together. We aim to produce about 8,000 new pages this year and we look forward to next Tuesday because our government is intervening in what it deems to be a failure of the litigation industry (largely unregulated; regulatory capture is abundant there) and by extension the access to justice. To me, writing is about justice and justice comes about by exposing wrongdoing. █
