Richard MacManus (ricmac)
I’m a tech journalist 📰 and I also write about internet history⏳on cybercultural.com, hence my Bluesky handle. I used to run a Web 2.0 blog named ReadWriteWeb. I'm a 🥝 living in 🇬🇧.
My alt account is @classicweb.site — screenshots of classic websites
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The New Stack
Writers, editors and other folks from The New Stack, a tech news and analysis site at https://thenewstack.io. Plus of course the TNS Bluesky account itself.
Internet History
Surfing a wave of net nostalgia and fond World Wide Web memories.
@loriemerson.net
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
@robertcathey.bsky.social
Cathey.co helps cloud infrastructure, dev tooling, data, security, and AI startups and new open source projects with PR, AR, content strategies.
@cra.dev
Building a better world through open collaboration: https://aniszczyk.org | CTO, CNCF and Linux Foundation
@classicweb.site
Screenshots of classic websites and blogs from Dot-Com, Web 2.0 and the 2010s. Brought to you by the internet history site https://cybercultural.com [bridged from https://indieweb.social/@classicweb on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@albumtoalbum.bsky.social
David Bowie's discography dissected, album by album, podcast by podcast. By Arsalan Mohammad http://arsalan.online https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/davidbowie-albumtoalbum/id1355073030
@lahpodcast.bsky.social
Literature PhD, Long Time Podcaster, New to Bluesky
@patrickmccray.bsky.social
Professor @ UCSB => I write history stuff about science + tech + art + environment Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 living in Cali-rado; public lands in public hands, pls. #146,842 https://www.patrickmccray.com
@theinstantwin.bsky.social
2025 energy: Comment. Repost. Follow more ppl than who follow you. Mastodon.world/@theinstantwin
@nostalgianerd.com
Retro YouTube nerd, author and landlord of Norwich's @barcadia.bar 🔗 nerdl.ink
@abnerg.bsky.social
Collector of tech surveys. Founding storybuilder for Silicon Valley/ SF companies serving software businesses. Recovering industry analyst in security, networks, and devops. bit.ly/m/therightstack
@paulkedrosky.com
Ancient amateur & meh athlete. Partner at http://skvcap.com. Co-founder http://simplavida.com. Research fellow at MIT IDE. Mailing list & other socials at http://paulkedrosky.com.
@melaniecrissey.com
Loves startups • Codes for fun • Big on remote-first work • Based out of Marietta, GA • Working on technicallymarket.ing • Writing at melaniecrissey.com/blog
@ihannas.bsky.social
Blogged for +20 years about art, craft and creativity. Loves free-form embroidery and slow crafts as well as collage, mixed media, art journaling and photography/layout and creating books. Oh well, I like it all.
@jingajik.bsky.social
Music Curator at Alexander Turnbull Library | JD Stout Fellow 2023 at Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington | Personal account | https://notunlikeatrumpet.wordpress.com/33-1-3/
@silvestar.codes
Fearless web engineer, CSS developer, JAMstack enthusiast, WordPress theme specialist, author of UI Dev Newsletter (http://bit.ly/ui-dev-news), founder of CSS Auditors
@mindandmatter.bsky.social
PD Fellow at @medicalcollegeofwi.bsky.social⚕️ Biocuration🔎Bioinformatics🧬 Biomedical Ontologies🩺 Better-applied science advocate⚖️ *Thoughts are my own
@timtrautmann.com
Working photographer in Portland, Oregon. https://photographicdispatches.com/ Not financial advice.
@artlung.com
Website fixer · IndieWebber · Comics maker · Bodysurfer · Blogger · Toy robot collector · CSS Battler · San Diego · Peace, love, resistance https://artlung.com/
@beach.bsky.social
Making a thing for independent artists and record labels to help them sell and connect more. Big fan of art, vinyl, baseball, & live music. Cancer patient advocate. Portland based. blurt.fm
@vektroid.bsky.social
burn the music industry 🤢 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vektroid 🤮 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_Shoppe 💸 patreon.com/vektroid 💩 twitch.tv/vektroidlive 🔗 linktr.ee/vektroid
@mherman.bsky.social
I'm chatty, just don't call me Cathy. /Communicator of all things technology to many—from developers to business leaders, employees to founders, and influencers and investors.
@johnhollinger.bsky.social
The Athletic NBA columnist PER creator - Former Grizzlies VP Basketball Ops - Former ESPN Wahoowa - Commanders - Brewers - Timbers - huh? Atlanta/a hotel
@bearnotesapp.bsky.social
Beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown notes app to help you write naturally anytime, anywhere. 🐻❤️📝 Available on Mac, iPhone & iPad. 🏠 Website: https://bear.app 🔗 FAQ & Support: https://bear.app/faq/ 💬 Community: https://community.bear.app
@soulcruzer.bsky.social
Learning experience designer | Mythic mentor | Storythinker I help seekers reframe personal myths, reclaim meaning, and live with narrative intelligence. Founder of Soulcruzer: a webzine for rogue learners + meaning-makers.
@jawnita.bsky.social
Xicana writer/editor. She/her/ella. Cofounder Hearing Things, hearingthingsco.bsky.social. Flaming Hydra, Hell Gate, etc. Vaquera forthcoming on Penguin Books
@hrheingold.bsky.social
Artist. Used to write books, teach college students, lecture. My current writing and art: patreon.com/howardrheingold
@c-engelbart.bsky.social
Director, The Doug Engelbart Institute dougengelbart.org - advancing his considerable legacy and all that inspires - past, present, and future...
@coletteshade.bsky.social
Author, Y2K: How the 2000's Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was). Fan of lipstick, pearls, birds, hikes & needlepoint.
@scottrichmond.me
Director, Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Experimental media aesthetics, history of computing, theory and technology geekery of various kinds.
@jdinc.bsky.social
Our goal is to make precedent-setting science companies well known and understood.
@jejord.bsky.social
Community & Marketing @ Flipboard & Surf Excited about the potential of the social web. Check out my @surf.social custom feeds on my Feeds tab.
@davidbowienews.bsky.social
Celebrating the Genius of David Bowie Blue, blue, electric blue That's the colour of my room Where I will live Linktree: https://linktr.ee/DavidBowieNews
@davidbowiereal.bsky.social
“Blue skies above, sun on your arms, strength in your stride, And hope in those squeaky clean eyes.” The OFFICIAL David Bowie Bluesky account with general announcements and promotions. Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/BowieOfficial
@peterdutoit.com
𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿: FutureClimate IQ | I speak about climate futures, mitigation and adaptation in the face of the climate crisis | b. 317 ppm 0.39º | 🇿🇦 https://peterdutoit.com
@battellemedia.com
Wary of "social media" these days. Starting to write more. Founder/CEO of lotsa media/tech/event companies.
@johnmu.com
He/Him - johnmu.com - Skeets my own. Google Search Advocate. For #SEO: g.co/searchcentral . Cheese. Watches. Birds. Spreadsheets. Do you like cheese? Say hi
@mbonsall.bsky.social
Ballardian | digitizer | concordancer | code art https://fentonville.co.uk/digital-ballard/
@courtneykey.bsky.social
If You Don't See One, Become One. Community Takes Work Do What You Can. Deeply Committed to the Bit. Pretty Okay At People En masse. NC. Psycho. Linguistics, tho JK. Hipster Geek. #Team233 #UCF #FSU M.S. MHC | Ed.S Human Systems #HandsOff #TeslaTakedown
@techmilly.bsky.social
Head of Digital & Data Policy for Which (UK consumer association) | advising CMA, Chatham House | x-ODI x-Royal Society x-Alan Turing Institute | website linkedin.com/in/mgzimeta/ | views my own | geopolitics & literary journalism as @mgzimeta.bsky.social
@criminalerin.bsky.social
This is a Twin Peaks stan and police hating account and reconciling that contradiction is your own problem. She/guy