The Internet With A Human Face - Beyond Tellerrand 2014 Conference Talk by Maciej Cegłowski
“It’s been amusing to watch Silicon Valley clutch its pearls and express shock that the government would dare to collect the same data as private industry.”
The New Yorker Pieces of Ethan Kuperberg
Dude’s funny.
Chernobyl: Capping a Catastrophe by Henry Fountain
“Soviet radiation,” he joked, “is the best radiation in the world.”
Mediating Music by Rudiger Meyer
A detailed and thoughtful article covering music, self-publishing, memory and the web. Tickled to be cited in it.
The tragedy of the commons by Jeremy Keith
” A museum should be exactly the kind of institution that should be taking a thoughtful, considered approach to how it stores content online. Digital preservation should be at the heart of its activities. Instead, it takes a back seat to chasing the fleeting thrill of “engagement.””
Andy Baio's Glitchy Medium article
Best use of Medium so far
How Television Without Pity Shaped Pop Culture By Margaret Lyons
“But taking the archives offline is a weird spiritual crime against pop culture. The site is a shining example of how pop criticism changed in the 2000s, and closing it down erases part of TV and internet-culture history.”
ONE WEEK // ONE BAND
“How “Bachelor Kisses” is not embraced the world over as the most romantic pop song ever dreamt is positively beyond me.”
Silicon Valley's Youth Problem by Yiren Lu
“There are so few start-ups that are doing things that are worthwhile to me,” he said.
This One’s for Me by Frank Chimero
“Dial it down, work with your hands, keep it quiet, and share what you know.”
OpenMusicMedia is dead, long live OpenMusicMedia by Matthew Ogle
“Right after the Facebook Timeline / open graph launch, I expected Facebook would, within a year, own a good chunk of all music discovery online. All that data + their complete social graph = inevitable victory, right? (The answer was a very instructive no.)”
We are Huxleying ourselves into the full Orwell by Cory Doctorow
“Try as I might, I can’t shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the Web.”
I May Be 50, but Don’t Call Me a Boomer by Richard Pérez-Peña
“In this way, I think we late boomers have more in common with the jaded Generation X that followed: we had less idealism to spoil. No, I don’t remember where I was when Kennedy was killed and innocence died (I was an infant), but I sure remember where I was when Nixon resigned and cynicism reigned.”
What Happens to My Data When I Die? by Andy Parker
“But I was wrong. My friend, haunts me everywhere I go.
Slowly finding their way to the bottom of my call list are exchanges in conversation. In my messages lies a thread detailing 4 separate arrangements, for 4 separate meet ups at 4 separate gigs. My emails have a number of mails, the subjects simply stated :RE:RE: OI OI!”
In dependence by Jeremy Keith
“In all likelihood, the independent web will never be able to match the power and reach of the silos. But that won’t stop me (and others) from owning our own words. If nothing else, we can at least demonstrate that the independent path is an option—even if that option requires more effort.”
Surviving Anxiety by Scott Stossel
“…it is not outlandish to conclude that I possess what Sigmund Freud called “the hereditary taint,” a genetic predisposition to anxiety and depression.”
Homesteading 2014 by Frank Chimero
“I don’t have to simplify or crop or be pulled out of context (unless I want that), which hopefully produces a fuller picture of who I am, what I like, and what I value.”
A Visual Lexicon by Robin Rendle
“And I’ve been […] wondering how our use of language impedes our vision, how our language obfuscates our ability to engineer complex front-end systems for the web.”
The blog is dead, long live the blog by Jason Kottke
“If you want something to cry about, cry about the decline of the open web, the death of which would be a huge blow for us all. But perhaps that’s a topic better left for 2015.”
An Ode to Winamp by Ryan Sims
“…Winamp was a key part of what it was like to come of age right at the end of the millennium (and first tech bubble).”
Forever by Tavi Gevinson
“Forever is when your brain is still developing, so everything sticks, like a lot. Forever is when you have tunnel vision because you (I) have not yet understood that you (I) are (am) not the center of the world, so you (I) grant yourself (myself) permission to see things as though you (I) are (am). I don’t recommend it as a lifestyle, but there’s something to be said for having this much time to just think about you, what you like, what you believe in, how you feel.”
Julius: The Cards on Fonts In Use
“The choice is both obvious and peculiar. Baruch had both been given cherem (an excommunication of sorts) and renounced his religion. Does it fit the content? Absolutely.”
The hits keep going
The time Radio Free Earth was on Metafilter was one of my proudest moments
Radio Free Earth by Jeremy Keith
“After the sleepover (more like a wakeover) in the aquarium, we started to style the interface. I say “we” …Chloe wrote the CSS while I made unhelpful remarks.”
Is Coding a Blogging Engine Still Worth it in 2013? by Frederic de Villamil
“I spent most of my summer vacation thinking about that POSSE thing. In many ways, it was the missing link in my online presence. It was a partial but acceptable solution to the schizophrenia that made me manage my email, Web site and Jabber server on the one hand, and happily give most of my online published content to silos I had no control over on the other hand.”
The Joy (and dread) of Keeping Diaries by Natalie Pantoja
My best friend, Natalie on personal archives. Trivia: My name is the one blocked out in #2.
Kids Can't Use Computers – And This Is Why It Should Worry You
“He explains that the Internet used to be on his desktop, but isn’t any more. I close I.E. and scour the desktop, eventually finding the little blue ‘e’ buried amongst some PowerPoint and Excel icons. I point to it. He points to a different location on the screen, informing me of where it used to be. I drag the icon back to it’s original location. He’s happy. He can’t use a computer.”
Battle for the planet of the APIs by Jeremy Keith
“How foolish of us, therefore, that we ended up using Google Reader exclusively to power all our RSS consumption. We took something that was inherently decentralised and we locked it up into one provider. And now that provider is going to screw us over.”
The Internet of Actual Things by Giles Turnbull
“The rest of the bulbs in the house will dim themselves automatically. That’s how light bulbs mourn.”