Posted on Tuesday 7 Sep 2021. 546 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb.
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Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net)It really is hard sometimes to understand the idiocy of artificial intelligence or machine learning or whatever the flavour of the day is today. This morning, I was slightly alarmed to see a warning from the Instagram gods, to whit:
Warning notice
It seems to think my post “looks like branded cont…
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Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net)The world continues to ignore my ranting. Happy 10th birthday to a piece of pedantry that I will never abandon: Ceci n’est pas un blog.
A more recent bafflement, about the use of web analytics on one’s personal site. Jeremy Keith doesn’t use any analytics, and says that he regards this as “shout…
Ik val flauw van naalden. Altijd al gehad. En die naald hoeft er niet eens bij mij in te gaan; ik kan ook flauwvallen als er bij iemand anders een infuus wor…
The first rule of no-social-media-club is that you shut your yap about no-social media club.
For years I’ve wondered why 99% of articles about quitting social media are written by people who haven’t quit social media. Sure, they “quit” for a week, a month, or in rare cases, a year. The Pew R…
Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)Beastie Boys Story involves Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz remembering and reimagining the history of the Beastie Boys. The documentary/presentation felt like as much a story about how they got to where they did as it was about redeeming past ills.
In one of the film’s most powerful moments, Ad…
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)This fantastic essay touches on so many things related to IndieWeb and A Domain of One’s Own. We often talk about the “why” of these movements, but Alan Jacobs provides some underlying ethics as well.
For those who don’t have a subscription, Alan has kindly and pleasantly provided a samizdat…
Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net)Having decided to take a daily approach to filling in the missing posts on this incarnation of my website, I started to think about displaying what I had written on this day in years past. There are all sorts of reasons to do this, many captured by the IndieWeb wiki page on the topic.1 For me, it is…
Elmine Wijnia (IN FULL FLOW)I’m in Copenhagen. I didn’t think it was possible, but we crossed two borders without issues. There were border controls into Denmark, and even though we weren’t picked out of the line, it was good we took the mandatory covid test. The Man drove us across two bridges to get us on the right island
So a while ago, I started using the “Pomodoro Technique”, where you set a timer for 25 minutes, and keep on working until the time is up. It worked pretty well — the Pomodoro creates an artificial…
Rowan Manning (rowanmanning.com)A small dive into one of my new favourite web technologies: webmentions. This post talks through how I use them to make my static website feel more alive and social.
Wouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)I initially wrote down these rules in my second notebook on the 23th of April in 2012. I came across them a second time in a more recent notebook. To me, these rules must somehow be more than simply appealing. Do more than you’re told to. Try new things. Teach others about what you know. Make work…
Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net)The machinery that publishes this website has been through several changes, and at each stage I have done my best to convert old items into a format that the new machine can deal with. It is slow going, though, and hard to keep motivated. After a burst of energy starting at the beginning and moving …
Europe’s communication needs are currently almost exclusively delivered by Chinese hardware that connects us to US-based platforms. For a variety of reasons, this is not a good idea.
As stated recently by Charles Michel, President of the European Council, “Interdependence is natural, even desirable. Over-dependence, however, is not”.
Photo by Sara Kurfeß on Unsplash
At the core, the problem is that almost no consumer-oriented platforms or software products are being created in Europe, or more precisely, by European companies.
Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)Ben Grosser discusses the need to turn away from private for-profit platforms to more public entities whose interest is not profit. Associated with this, Grosser outlines a set of shared values to support this move:
SLOW — We need media that actively and intentionally works against the platform ca…
De laatste update was alweer bijna dan twee maanden geleden. Toen dachten we nog dat we met een muurtje de lava wel konden tegenhouden. Dat bleek al vrij sne…
We have enough social media platforms, and they are all broken. Content moderation is bust at even moderate scale, and algorithmic amplification is broken at any scale. We need a reboot. We need to double down on the ideas of Web 1.0, and the tools that make carving out your own place on the internet possible. Not more platforms luring…
Dwayne Harris (dwayne.xyz)I added support for Webmentions to the site!
Webmentions is a protocol for websites (mostly blog type sites) to automatically notify each other of responses or mentions to each other. It’s not a service (but there are services that work with it), but something that can be implemented in blogging s…
