Facebook and X gave up on news. LinkedIn wants to fill the void
"All of this has led to some pretty serious soul-searching among America’s journalists. Is the future email newsletters? Will podcasts save the news? Does everything need to be short vertical video...
View ArticleThe Deaths of Effective Altruism
"This is a stranger story of how some small-time philosophers captured some big-bet billionaires, who in turn captured the philosophers—and how the two groups spun themselves into an opulent vortex...
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Share Openly
You know all those “share to Facebook” / “share to Twitter” links you see all over peoples’ websites? They’re all out of date.Social media has evolved over the last year, yet nobody has “share to”...
View ArticleAdvertising share intents with microformats
Yesterday I published a fediverse-aware / indieweb-aware version of a "share to..." / AddThis-like tool. It allows you to easily add a “share to ..” button to your website that works with as many...
View ArticleYes: A writing-focused Homebrew Website Club is completely up my street and...
Yes: A writing-focused Homebrew Website Club is completely up my street and I'm excited to attend!
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An intrusive thought about Trump 2024
I come from families of forced migrants. On one side, my father’s earliest memories are of the unspeakable horrors he endured in a concentration camp in Indonesia. On the other, my great grandfather’s...
View ArticleRussell T. Davies on Why Doctor Who's Disney Partnership Is So Important
"You’ve also got to look at the long-term, at the end of the BBC, which somehow is surely undoubtedly on its way in some shape or form. What, is Doctor Who going to die then?" This is a pretty...
View ArticleFacebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
"By 2013, Netflix had begun entering into a series of “Facebook Extended API” agreements, including a so-called “Inbox API” agreement that allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook’s users'...
View ArticleWith 'Cowboy Carter,' Black country music fans are front and center, at last
"In interviews with The 19th, a dozen Black fans of country discussed reconciling their love for the music with its racist, misogynistic past, as well as the pervasive image of White men who continue...
View ArticleOne of the disappointments of my adult ...
One of the disappointments of my adult life has been realizing that I’m way to the left of a lot of people - that things I think are sensible improvements that we need in order to help people have...
View ArticleOver time I'm becoming more and more ...
Over time I'm becoming more and more enamored with the Derek Sivers mindset to posting on the internet.
View ArticleReplay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family, by Jordan Mechner
Just fabulous. Maybe it's because his family history is not a world of different from mine, or maybe it's because his journey and interests feels intertwined with my own, but I wept openly as I read...
View ArticleI think it would be fun to ...
I think it would be fun to (co-)organize an East Coast IndieWebCamp this year, mostly because I would like to go to an East Coast IndieWebCamp this year. Perhaps there's scope for an IndieWebCamp NYC...
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Replicators
I’d love to read about the early days of the Star Trek replicator. It’s a sometimes-useful macguffin in the context of Star Trek: The Next Generation and later shows: a device that can recreate...
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My Edinburgh
A friend asked me to recommend some places to visit in Edinburgh — not the big stuff (Arthur’s Seat, for example), but the small haunts and little delights that I used to love. I lived there for a...
View ArticleA ProPublica Lawsuit Over Military Court Access Moves Forward
From my colleagues: "ProPublica has “plausibly alleged that the issued guidelines are clearly inconsistent with Congress’ mandate.” This is most apparent, the judge said, in the allegation that the...
View ArticleWhy we invented a new metric for measuring readership
"One particular piece of the journalism model that is broken? How news organizations measure their readership." Pageviews are not a million miles away from hits - which is how we measured success in...
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72
It’s my mother’s birthday. She would be 72 today.The week we lost her, I wrote this piece, which I re-read today.In it, our friend Anita Hurrell remembered her like this:One time you drove us in the...
View ArticleI really hope San Francisco stays an ...
I really hope San Francisco stays an idealistic, progressive city and doesn't succumb to centrism. There are plenty of other places for people who want a city run by those values to live. San Francisco...
View ArticleFootage and stories from Gaza are heart-wrenching. ...
Footage and stories from Gaza are heart-wrenching. The systematic killing of aid workers is just a small part of the atrocities being committed over there. Hamas is not a force for good in the region...
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