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This week's notable links
February 12, 2024
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...
A creative process
February 11, 2024
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...
This week's notable links
February 5, 2024
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...
Three variations on Omelas
February 4, 2024
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...
The four phases
February 3, 2024
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...
Stripping the web of its humanity
January 30, 2024
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;...
This week's notable links
January 29, 2024
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...
The indieweb is for everyone
January 27, 2024
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...
The right to see who is spying on us
January 26, 2024
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’...
This week's notable links
January 22, 2024
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...
This week's notable links
January 15, 2024
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...
The fediverse for media organizations
January 14, 2024
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...
Running your own site is painful. Hosting Nazis is worse
January 12, 2024
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...
This week's notable links
January 8, 2024
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...
45 wishes
January 7, 2024
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...
My favorite books I read in 2023
January 4, 2024
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...
Notable links: December 31st, 2023
January 1, 2024
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 newsreader I really...
Looking forward to 2024
December 31, 2023
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...
Looking back at 2058
December 30, 2023
2058 was many things: the hottest year in recorded history, a year when civil rights protests made national news in the face of deepening inequality, and...
Notable links: December 26, 2023
December 26, 2023
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. (It's a light week because of the holidays.) Did I miss something? Let me...
Leaving the Nazi bar
December 23, 2023
Newsletter subscribers might be surprised to see a slightly new design. I’ve moved away from Substack and back to Buttondown, an indie mailing list service....