But I actually think stock and flow is a useful metaphor for media in the 21st century. Here’s what I mean: Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that reminds people you exist. Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as…
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Annotated: Three examples of annotations, bookmarking, & sharing in my digital commonplace book
The purpose (for me) in these bookmarks is to identify a space (or process) between Hypothesis and my IndieWeb commonplace site. I want to read, review, and share the link, salient quotes, and perhaps some context for others. The use of Hypothesis helps as I have another series of links behind to “show my work.”…
Annotated: Reclaiming RSS – Aral Balkan
As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS. Everything old is new again. RSS was an essential part of Web 1.0 before surveillance capitalism (Web 2.0) took over. Ik hoop oprecht dat de slimme mensen in de decentralized web-community er voor kiezen om…
Annotated: Would breaking up ‘big tech’ work? What would? — Benedict Evans
Microsoft might have been doing all sorts of mean and sneaky things, but people used Windows and Office because of network effects, and those network effects were and are internal to each product. People used Windows because it had the software and people wrote software for Windows because it had the users, and that had…
Annotated: 🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog
What makes a garden is interesting. It’s personal. Things are organized and orderly, but with a touch of chaos around the edges. Mooie quote. “a touch of chaos around the edges” (Bron)
Annotated: What is the Small Web?
The mass surveillance and factory farming of human beings on a global scale is the business model of people farmers like Facebook and Google. It is the primary driver of the socioeconomic system we call surveillance capitalism. (Bron)
