Hitch-hiker holding a sign that reads East Like yesterday’s pillow fight, my response is, “yes, who hasn’t?”. On second thoughts I don’t know how many people do hitch hike these days. Way too dangerous, everyone seems to think. And I cannot remember the last time I actually saw someone hitching.

But we used to do it all the time, occasionally perhaps foolishly so.

Nowadays you can use your thumb on a mouse instead of on the open road, which takes all the fun out of it, but also guarantees that you won’t stop for some babe and have her three “brothers” emerge from behind a nearby tree.

2022-01-17: Which shut down just last year at the end of September. Hard to believe it lasted that long.

Two ways to respond: webmentions and comments

Webmentions

Webmentions allow conversations across the web, based on a web standard. They are a powerful building block for the decentralized social web.

“Ordinary” comments

These are not webmentions, but ordinary old-fashioned comments left by using the form below.

Reactions from around the web