The WELL: Real Online Community

Coming up: Authors and apology experts Susan McCarthy and Marjorie Ingall join media personality Angie Coiro to discuss their book ‘Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case For Good Apologies‘ Feb. 28 – March 13, 2023. Discussion link forthcoming. simonandschuster.com/books/Sorry-So…

@metasdl Jay, hello! We're close to inactive here given the trajectory of X, so please forgive getting back to you so late. Our Science conference might be to your liking. You can sign up for three free months to check it out. Would you like to give it a try? Please email coiro@well.com.

#TBT to five and a half years ago, when the members of @TheWELL banded together and bought the site themselves. Want to join us? For a special introductory rate of $9.50 a month, you can be part of the one of the best communities in the Internet! well.com/about-2/pr/how…

Grateful Dead fans! Inkwell welcomes Gary Lambert and David Gans, cohosts of TALES FROM THE GOLDEN ROAD (facebook.com/tftgr/), a weekly talk show on SiriusXM's Grateful Dead Channel. Follow the two week conversation at tinyurl.com/tales-goldenro…

Geologist Andrew Alden discusses his book, _Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City_, in which he excavates the ancient story of Oakland’s geologic underbelly and reveals how its silt, soil, and subterranean sinews are intimately entwined with its human history—and future. tinyurl.com/deep-oakland

@stevesilberman @TheWELL Squad assemble.

@KnowCalifornia @TheWELL Where the internet began.

@jeingham @TheWELL @hrheingold @kevin2kelly What I like best about the Well is that the "forward thinkers" on it were strongly opposed to taking the service to the Web in 1995, because the command line interface was sort of a "proving ground" for users that weeded out a subset of potential users. The Bruce Katz era.

Street Photos, Joseph Selle, Fox Movie Flash From the 1930s to the 70s Selle was a fixture around Market Street, Union Square & the Cliff House taking candid pictures of tourists, shoppers, and movie goers. Over 1,000,000 frames still exist. #sfhistory andreweskind.com

So you guys were all dissing us Jews for having secret space lasers, but with Chinese spy balloons floating around, who ya gonna call?

Okay, I finally, finally found the one I'm truly excited about. Immediately signed up for the waitlist. Oh, I hope it lives up to its goals! wired.com/story/plaintex…

Collector’s item from 1995. @TheWELL

Two week ongoing conversation with John Markoff, author of "Whole Earth," a biography of Stewart Brand. Check in every day for more of the asynchronous conversation. tinyurl.com/whole-earth

Bruce Sterling discusses #StateoftheWorld in 2023 w/@jonl @TheWELL well.com “I’ve got a lot to say” @bruces (also prescient in making his account private) On Russia in 1998 wired.com/1998/01/sterli… & chairs in 2000 wired.com/2000/07/chairs/ @wired #BruceSterling

RSS to @TheWELL's State of the World 2023: people.well.com/conf/inkwell.v…

I made a map of what I think is all the archive images from @SFMTAPhoto Archive (about 15,000 images) It works ok (some images from the 40's are missing) & will probably look familiar to some of you. Take a look & let me know what you think. #sfhistory sfmemory.org/maps/sfmta.php

.@davidgans nails it on The Well this morning: "'Woke' is a word used by assholes to stigmatize common decency." #woke

@PhilCatalfo <sweeney> on @TheWell points out that it was intended originally as satire. snopes.com/news/2022/08/0…

Ahem. We are beloved.

@jnfr @larrybrilliant @WIRED @TheWELL I would say "true love of conversation," vs drive-by posting...