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Looking forward to 2024
Let’s get this out of the way first: 2024 is going to be a hard year across the board. Mass layoffs, another hottest year on record, escalating conflicts with enormous human tolls and flagrant human...
View ArticleNotable links: December 31st, 2023
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!10 blogs for your newsreaderI really like this: a starter pack of blogs to follow if...
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My favorite books I read in 2023
I don’t want to call these the best books I read last year: I read plenty of other well-written, worthy contenders. But these six titles are the ones that stuck with me and left me thinking about them...
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45 wishes
Previous birthday posts: 44 thoughts about the future, 43 things, 42 / 42 admissions, 41 things.This post is in partial answer to Matt Mullenweg’s birthday request for everyone to blog, which is a...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell's 1984, by Sandra NewmanNot just a retelling but a...
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Running your own site is painful. Hosting Nazis is worse
I’ve spent much of my career telling organizations that they should publish in a space that they control, on their own domain name.My usual argument is that it shields you from major changes in company...
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The fediverse for media organizations
Given all the talk lately of Threads, Mastodon, and ways that people can publish on their own sites, I thought it might be worth revisiting what the fediverse actually is — and why an organization...
View ArticleThis week's notable links
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!Why return-to-office mandates fail"My advice to business leaders is this: If your...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!How The Guardian raised a record amount of reader revenue in the U.S. | Nieman...
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The right to see who is spying on us
CNN reports that the NSA has been buying internet data as a way to track Americans without a warrant:[Oregon Democratic Senator Ron] Wyden, one of Congress’ most vocal privacy advocates, said he spent...
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The indieweb is for everyone
Tantek Çelik has posted a lovely encapsulation of the indieweb:The #IndieWeb is for everyone, everyone who wants to be part of the world-wide-web of interconnected people. The social internet of...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!Following lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George Carlin was human-writtenSimon Willison...
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Stripping the web of its humanity
I tried Arc Search, the new mobile app from the Browser Company. Its central insight is that almost every mobile browsing session starts with a web search; rather than giving you the usual list of...
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The four phases
This post is part of February’s IndieWeb Carnival, in which Manuel Moreale prompts us to think about the various facets of digital relationships.Our relationship to digital technology has been through...
View ArticleThree variations on Omelas
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, by Ursula K. LeGuin:They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!Zuckerberg's Going to Use Your Instagram Photos to Train His AI MachinesDuring Meta's...
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A creative process
Over on Threads, Amanda Zamora asks:I'm plotting away on Agencia Media and some personal writing/reporting this weekend (over a glass of 🍷 and many open tabs). One of the things I love most about...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?"Local news publishers, [VP...
View ArticleThis week's notable links (really)
Earlier today you received a weekly notable links email with exactly one link in it. As it turns out, this was a bug with my newsletter service provider, which I'm told will be fixed this week. (For...
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Social, I love you, but you’re bringing me down
This weekend I realized that I’m kind of burned out: agitated, stressed about nothing in particular, and peculiarly sleepless. It took a little introspection to figure out what was really going...
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