Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
[Andrew Schmelyun]Following my piece about reading the news on paper, I came across this post from Anrew Schmelyun:"I recently purchased a dot matrix printer from eBay, and thought it would be a great...
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The two Fediverses
I was tagged in a fairly critical SocialHub post about the Social Web Foundation launch announcement. I wasn’t in a position to add to the conversation then, but I’ve been thinking about it all...
View ArticleYou Can’t Own The Social Web
[Bix Frankonis]Bix Frankonis does not agree with my analysis of the Fediverse and the Social Web Foundation. For him, much of the issue relates to appropriation of the "social web" name:"Like many...
View ArticleRules for Resters
[Ben Werdmuller on Medium]I find myself returning to this piece I wrote on Medium about building downtime into your work and lifestyle. It's important:Eight years into working in America, I’m still...
View ArticleIf Harris Wins, Whether She Keeps Lina Khan Will Be Extremely Telling
[Karl Bode at TechDirt]"The Harris campaign has remained largely silent on whether Khan will be allowed to stick around. And it remains entirely unclear whether Harris will continue Biden’s support of...
View ArticleThe blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted
[ John Naughton ]"If you log into Dave Winer’s blog, Scripting News, you’ll find a constantly updated note telling you how many years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds the blog has been...
View ArticleSilicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster
[Charles Duhigg at the New Yorker]"As the tech industry has become the planet’s dominant economic force, a coterie of specialists—led, in part, by the political operative who introduced the idea of “a...
View ArticleEarth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts
[Damian Carrington at The Guardian]Meanwhile, while we're all paying attention elsewhere:"More and more scientists are now looking into the possibility of societal collapse, said the report, which...
View ArticleForums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information
[Chris Person at Aftermath]"Over the years, forums did not really get smaller, so much as the rest of the internet just got bigger. Reddit, Discord and Facebook groups have filled a lot of that space,...
View ArticleWaffle House Index labels Hurricane Milton red, closes stores
[Ben Kesslen at Quartz]"Waffle House, the iconic American restaurant chain with over 1,600 locations known for cooking up Southern breakfast food, has developed an advanced storm center FEMA consults...
View ArticleWhy Reach journalists are being asked to write up to eight articles per day
[Charlotte Tobitt at Press Gazette]"Paul Rowland wrote in an email to staff on 27 September that article volumes were being talked about “a lot in newsrooms at the moment” and blamed, in part, the...
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It turns out I'm still excited about the web
I’m worried I’ve become cynical about technology as I’ve gotten older. But maybe technology really is worse.Someone asked me the other day: “what [in media and technology] are you excited about right...
View ArticleInsecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI
[Julian Fell at Australian ABC News]"Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings – taken inside...
View ArticleWordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin
[Wes Davis at The Verge]The feud between Automattic (or more specifically, Matt Mullenweg himself) and WP Engine is getting bonkers:"WordPress.org has taken over a popular WP Engine plugin in order...
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Revisiting Known
I thought it would be fun to revisit Known, the open source publishing platform that powers my site.How it worksKnown allows a team or community to publish news on any topic to a single, searchable...
View ArticleIt feels like 2004 again.
[Anil Dash]Anil Dash makes a pertinent observation about the current state of the web:"At the start of this year, I wrote The Internet Is About To Get Weird Again, which began by calling back to the...
View ArticleIs Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?
[Mathew Ingram]Mathew Ingram's overview of the WordPress drama continues to be updated with new information. The hole just seems to be getting deeper and deeper. As he says: it's a mess."It's pretty...
View ArticleTo be clear, I'm not in any ...
To be clear, I'm not in any way saying that they should - just that I can see it as a possibility!
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I joined Dot Social for a conversation about the future of media
I was lucky enough to sit down with Mike McCue, CEO at Flipboard, and 404 Media co-founder (and former Motherboard Editor-in-Chief) Jason Koebler to talk about the future of media and its intersection...
View ArticleUnderrepresented journalists most impacted by layoffs, says new report
[James Salanga at The Objective]"Layoffs in journalism since 2022 have disproportionately impacted people of marginalized genders and people of color, according to a new report from the Institute of...
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