JF Martin

March 15, 2021

Now What?

Have you tried: http://world.hey.com/~shuffle? I did. A lot. I even created a Shortcut on my home screen named “HEY World Dice”. Tapping on the icon opens Safari with this URL and boom, I’m presented with a random HEY World user’s wall (can I say that?). I found some interesting things but most of my findings can be summed up to: “Hey,...
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March 12, 2021

Everybody's Welcomed Here

I like Om Malik's take on HEY World: “"Hey World is all about blogging as a philosophy. It recognizes the inherent value in sharing and expression. It tips its hat to blogging’s past and focuses on its essence."” The essence being self expression as a tool to help build an audience, because this is exactly the way I see it. I'm current...
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March 11, 2021

Life Must Go On!

Following the announcement of my father who passed away last week-end, I received a lot of support from people who follow me. To them, I want to say thank you. Your kinds words are helping me cope with the events. 🙏🏻 Now, looking forward. Life must go on. Resuming normal programming.
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March 8, 2021

Forced Interlude

Yesterday, I lost my dear father. 😢 He was 92. I knew it was coming. He didn't suffer much; I'm grateful for this. As a candle slowly loosing its flame, he slowly left this world for another one. I'll miss him. Allow me to take a short pause. 😔🪦
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March 7, 2021

Thinking out Loud on Possible Hey World Use Cases

Yeah, that’s me on this picture. This is my third post on HEY World, still thinking about the possible use cases of HEY World. It is so good, that I have to find something for it. Thinking out loud is how I found a “raison d’être” for my Numeric Citizen Introspection newsletter. I was walking with my wife last summer talking about news...
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March 6, 2021

Updated Thoughts About HEY World

I've been thinking about HEY World since writing my first post. Lot's of tidbits about it to share, and a few observations as a blogger. Tell me more! First, a couple of information tidbits. HEY World doesn't track it's users but we actually can see how many people are subscribing to the newsletter. We can even export the subscriber's ...
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March 5, 2021

HEY World — Message in a Bottle

Today, HEY World came to (numeric) life. When I’m thinking about this new service, the image above exemplify the thing that comes to my mind. What is simpler than putting a message in a bottle in today’s world? HEY World for bloggers or writers like me is exactly the kind of frictionless experience that we are constantly looking for. T...
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