👓 The Internet is going the wrong way | Scripting News
Read The Internet is going the wrong way by Dave Winer (Scripting News) Click a link in a web browser, it should open a web page, not try to open an app which you may not have installed. This is what...
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🔖 Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron...
Bookmarked Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier (Henry Holt and Co.) You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual...
View ArticleDefining the IndieWeb
The concept of IndieWeb is something slightly different to many people and it’s ever evolving and changing, just like the internet itself. Trying to define it is somewhat akin to trying to define...
View Article👓 China has the world’s most centralised internet system – The ultimate...
Read China has the world’s most centralised internet system (The Economist) A perfect example of a Hamiltonian internet for maximum control Leading thinkers in China argue that putting government in...
View Article👓 How regulators can prevent excessive concentration online – A new school in...
Read How regulators can prevent excessive concentration online (The Economist) Conventional antitrust thinking is being disrupted from within It is not the data that are valuable, he says, but the...
View Article👓 There is no single solution to making the internet more decentralised – The...
Read There is no single solution to making the internet more decentralised (The Economist) Stopping the internet from getting too concentrated will be a slog, but the alternative would be worse This...
View Article👓 How Online Hobbyists Can Reaffirm Your Faith in the Internet | New York Times
Read How Online Hobbyists Can Reaffirm Your Faith in the Internet by Farhad Manjoo (nytimes.com) Much of the internet feels terrible. But using the web to learn an offline hobby can give you a glimpse...
View Article👓 The New York Times Fired My Doppelgänger | Quinn Norton | The Atlantic
Read The New York Times Fired My Doppelgänger by Quinn Norton (The Atlantic) I saw the internet create and destroy a bizarro version of myself. I’ve been reading some pieces from my archive on context...
View Article👓 Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound |...
Read Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound by Maryanne Wolf (the Guardian) When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand...
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👓 Article 13 makes it official. It’s time to embrace decentralization | Ben...
Read Article 13 makes it official. It's time to embrace decentralization by Ben Werdmüller (Ben Werdmüller) Today the EU passed Articles 11 and 13 of its new Copyright Directive in a 438 to 226 vote....
View Article🔖 The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online by Whitney...
Bookmarked The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online by Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner (Polity) This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday...
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👓 Google, the Social Silos and the Web Traffic Future | Brad Enslen
Read a post by Brad Enslen (Brad Enslen) The video below is of interest to SEO’s, webmaster’s trying to create their own informational websites, and the Indieweb. The video, featuring Rand Fishkin,...
View Article👓 About | Data & Society
Read About (Data & Society) Data & Society is a research institute in New York City that is focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric and automated technologies. The...
View Article👓 @MozOpenLeaders – Building a Healthier Internet | fiveflames4learning.com
Read @MozOpenLeaders – Building a Healthier Internet (Five Flames 4 Learning) I didn’t think I was that important. I’m just one small part of one small space in one small corner of the world. I never...
View Article👓 How Much of the Internet Is Fake? | NY Magazine | Intelligencer
Read How Much of the Internet Is Fake? (Intelligencer) Turns out, a lot of it, actually.
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📖 Read Chapter 1: A Networked Public pages 3-27 of Twitter and Tear Gas: The...
📖 Read Chapter 1: A Networked Public pages 3-27 of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci Chapter 1 was pretty solid. This almost seems to me like it...
View Article🎧“The Daily”: What the West Got Wrong About China, Part 1 | New York Times
Listened to "The Daily": What the West Got Wrong About China, Part 1 by Michael Barbaro from New York Times Many in the United States believed that capitalism would never work without political...
View Article👓 What is ds106 Radio?
Read What is ds106 Radio? (ds106.us) ds106 Radio is a free form live streaming station that has been setup for this course, and it is being used as a platform to broadcast the work being created in...
View Article👓 The Soothing Promise of Our Own Artisanal Internet | Wired
Read The Soothing Promise of Our Own Artisanal Internet (WIRED) As unease with Big Tech grows, some prescribe a slower, less viral online existence. "Eat independent sites, mostly not Facebook."...
View Article👓 Graying Out | Tim Bray
Read Graying Out by Tim Bray (tbray.org) For many years I’ve interacted with my fellow humans, I think perhaps more than any other way, via the medium of Internet chat. But in my chat window, they’re...
View Article👓'Captain Marvel' Shows How Trolls Lost Their Edge | WIRED
Read 'Captain Marvel' Shows How Trolls Lost Their Edge (WIRED) They've been trying to sabotage the movie's success from the beginning. Their failure proves they're played out.
View Article👓 Europe Against the Net | Buzz Machine | Jeff Jarvis
Read Europe Against the Net by Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine) I’ve spent a worrisome weekend reading three documents from Europe about regulating the net: The revived, revised, and worsened...
View Article👓 Proposals for Reasonable Technology Regulation and an Internet Court |...
Read Proposals for Reasonable Technology Regulation and an Internet Court by Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine) I have seen the outlines of a regulatory and judicial regime for internet companies that begins...
View Article👓 LO, The Internet Turned 50 Today | Interdependent Thoughts
Read LO, The Internet Turned 50 Today by Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org) The first message was sent from one computer to another over ARPANET on October 29th at 22:30. ‘LO’ for Login, but then the computer...
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Read The Decade the Internet Lost Its Joy by Clio Chang (gen.medium.com) What began as cheerful anarchy was devoured by vulture capital and ruthless consolidation
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Listened to Hindsight Is 2019 from On the Media | WNYC Studios We take a walk down memory lane, and ask ourselves some existential questions. If possible, click to play, otherwise your browser may be...
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Listened to Can Restorative Justice Save The Internet? from On the Media | WNYC Studios How theories of criminal justice reform can help us detoxify the web. If possible, click to play, otherwise your...
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Bookmarked Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil (MCD ) In a shockingly short amount of time, the internet has bound people around the world together and torn us apart and changed not...
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Read The People's Web by Anil Dash (Anil Dash) Every day, millions of people rely on independent websites that are mostly created by regular people, weren't designed as mobile apps, connect deeply to...
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Read Feed readers/content aggregators by Dan MacKinlay (danmackinlay.name) Upon the efficient consumption and summarizing of news from around the world. Facebook is informative in the same way that...
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Read Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers' Fortresses by Corey Doctorow (Electronic Frontier Foundation) When Apple's App Store launched in 2008, it was widely...
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Signs that after 28 years you're finally starting to do the web the right way...
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Read Dial It Up, Dial It In, Let Me Begin | diesel sweeties comics by R Stevens (dieselsweeties.com) I miss the old internet.
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Read What's wrong with WhatsApp by William Davies (the Guardian) The long read: As social media has become more inhospitable, the appeal of private online groups has grown. But they hold their own...
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Read The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron (Mute) The California Ideology is a mix of cybernetics, free market economics, and counter-culture libertarianism and is promulgated...
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Quoted The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook & Andy Cameron (Mute) We need to debate what kind of hypermedia suit our vision of society - how we create the interactive products and on-line...
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Bookmarked From My to Me: Another history of the WWW, 2020 by Olia Lialina (INTERFACE CRITIQUE) This article is an elaboration on the statements about the WWW, web design and personal websites I made...
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Google apparently gave up on the whole “don’t be evil” bit. Their long-standing about page with their philosophy started serving 301s for a bit after June 14th and is now 404. Watch out internet. 👀
View ArticleSome notes about the semantic change of “interlink” and “backlink”
I’m reasonably certain that he’s raised the question or issue about the definition of “interlink” or “backlink” before, but it’s come up again today with some discussion and notes which I wanted to...
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Thoughts about Robin Sloan’s Spring ’83 Experiment
I’ve been thinking about Robin Sloan‘s Spring ’83 Experiment on and off for a bit. I too almost immediately thought of Fraidyc.at and its nudge at shifting the importance of content based on time and...
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