Author Archives: Brian Alvey

At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your WordPress?!? You bet. It’s here now. People joke that the “S” in MCP is for security. So WordPress VIP made Secure MCP for the biggest and most important websites on the planet. Auditable. Governed. AvailableContinue reading “Secure MCP?”

The Pope posted on X about the hundredth anniversary of the Holy See’s publishing house, the Libreria Editrice Vaticana. It was a “moment to reflect on the importance of books and of writing,” but the internet took it as a command to write dirty fanfic or to stop using AI for writing, treating it asContinue reading “Papal get ready”

The biggest risk to your company right now isn’t AI. It’s how you coordinate your AI with your people. You can’t just promise to keep a “human in the loop.” Writing a policy document isn’t enough. This needs to be part of your content factory, part of the machine that runs your business. If youContinue reading “Content Guidelines for people and agents in CMSes”

Om Malik died last week. He liked me — or maybe he tolerated me, but he loved several of my good friends. So my heart goes out to each of them as so many people in our industry celebrate his life and share how amazing and influential Om was in their lives. The first thingContinue reading “Two things I learned from Om Malik”

My wife is Greek and she visited Greece a lot when she was younger, but hadn’t been there since we met 30 years ago. So we planned an epic two-week family vacation this summer to see seven cities in Greece. It was incredible and I had a wonderful time — until I got sick withContinue reading “Comin’ out of my cage and I’ve been doin’ just fine”

When I was 15, I joined my high school’s horseback riding club. My high school was in Brooklyn, New York. I took two buses from Bay Ridge to Prospect Park. We would saddle up our horses, walk them down the cobblestone road on Caton Place, walk them across the big traffic circle and then hopContinue reading “Horseback riding in Brooklyn?”

Here’s a fascinating story about Peter Wayne Moe and a team of more than a hundred people preparing the Longbranch Whale to hang at Seattle Pacific University. I ask Sandilands where he learned to shoot a crossbow. Was he in the army? Was he a sniper? “Of course not,” he says. “I’m Canadian.” That wasContinue reading “How to Articulate a Whale”

“I’m Glad My Mom Died” is an incredible, well-written book — filled with gut punches. Highly recommended. Early in her book, Jennette McCurdy’s mom flips out because her daughter might want to be a writer instead of an actress. Writers are frumpy and fat. Actresses are pretty and skinny. It’s sad, because by this pointContinue reading ““I’m Glad My Mom Died””

[minor spoiler ahead] My daughter and I watched Tick, Tick… Boom! We loved it. Andrew Garfield can sing. Vanessa Hudgens is a star. So underrated. And the Sunday brunch scene filled with legends from Broadway was a delight. But one scene hit me hard that I wasn’t expecting. It’s well known that Jonathan Larson diedContinue reading “Tick, Tick… Boom!”