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More on why you should write
Reposted Why and how to write things on the Internet | benkuhn.net.
SET UP YOUR BLOG
You are not allowed to spend more than 30 minutes on this part until you have written four blog posts!
Oof, about that… Beyond that, a must read article from Ben on why and how to write (and publish!) online. Get going! And let me know where I can find you. I’d be delighted to read what you write.
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Digital ownership
Reposted We need to talk about digital ownership.
In reality, people who talk about digital ownership are often talking about vastly different concepts, which muddies the waters. It would be helpful if instead they described precisely what rights they’re trying to ensure.
An excellent rundown of some of the many different things that the phrase “digital ownership” might encompass, and pertinent questions about each of them.
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ooh.directory
I really enjoy finding new blogs of all kinds over at ooh.directory. Check it out if you haven’t already. You’ll probably find your next favourite blog there.
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Mechanical Watch
Reposted Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski by .
Over the course of this article I’ll explain the workings of the mechanism seen in the demonstration below. You can drag the device around to change your viewing angle, and you can use the slider to peek at what’s going on inside:
A classic. The article itself is as beautifully crafted as a mechanical watch.
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A Golden Era of Blogging
Reposted https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/golden-era-blogging/ by .
All the incentives to make a living producing content are over on other platforms, which means those who are blogging are doing it out of love, passion, or some other reason that’s (yet) to be tainted by substantial outside influence.
There tends to be a very strong correlation between those reasons for creating content and how interesting the content ends up being.
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How Machines Took Over the Internet, and Why We Need to Take It Back!
Reposted How Machines Took Over the Internet, and Why We Need to Take It Back! by .
AI makes things worse because now we have machines generating SEO-friendly articles to talk to machines. The cycle is complete—machines talking to machines.
What we need is people talking to people, discussions, the web as the big enabler. We need more human curators instead of automated curators.
Astute observation from Maho. Machines are generating content aiming to convince other machines that humans will enjoy the content.
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The great list of all the blog platforms
Reposted The great list of all the blog platforms – Manu.
Blogs are back. They never went anywhere but still, they’re back. Many people will—hopefully—ditch social media and start a blog in the near future. Almost as many people will ask themselves which tool/platform/incantation they should use to start said blog.
Pick one and get going. I’m rooting for you.
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Living at the speed of spiders
Reposted Living at the speed of spiders – Relevant Information.
Vehicles then, eliminate the world by dilution, stretching out the experience of the world by cramping it together into a short walk of the clock, concentrating the world to only contain the relevant. Sometimes that is the desired outcome, but surely that shouldn’t be universal.
An interesting perspective of the speed of things, from someone whose approach to writing is very similar to what I’m trying to do with this blog.
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Stripping the web of its humanity
Reposted Stripping the web of its humanity by .
“… it’s not an ordinary search at all, and Arc Search has presented the information as factual, without context or attribution, as a very simple website. There are three representative links presented further down the page, but in a way that is disconnected from the facts themselves.”
AI regurgitation is not the future of discovery.
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Browsing the mobile web sucks
Reposted Browsing the mobile web sucks by .
“I know you have an app. I don’t want to install it. Don’t prompt me — it’s your website in a wrapper with push notifications and more telemetry. Stop.”
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AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born
Reposted AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born – The Verge by .
“Sites could protect themselves by locking down entry and charging for access, but this would also be a huge reordering of the web’s economy. In the end, Google might kill the ecosystem that created its value, or change it so irrevocably that its own existence is threatened.”
There’s a seismic shift ahead in how content is shared and discovered. I don’t know what the new world looks like, but I don’t see Google’s core business model being part of it.
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Visiting Websites
Reposted Visiting Websites by .
“I want to change this behaviour of only viewing sites through the lens of a feed reader (or similar). I want to visit sites more routinely when they are updated.”
This is one of the reasons I really like Reeder. It makes it simple to view content in its original context (just click the title). And I always do that. Unless the original website doesn’t have dark mode theme, of course. In that case, I get the heck out of there asap.
No offence.
That reminds me. I really need to put together a dark mode theme for this blog.
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The indie web
Reposted The indie web by .
“To have a personal website is, presently, an act of rebellion. It is a statement. You are saying: I want to define my experience on the web. I’ll let you in on an open secret: Big tech companies aren’t the only ones who get to decide how we share ideas on the web. The web is yours.”
This is the web I want to make my online home. As Frank commented, blogging is punkrock publishing. The punks are dead, long live the punks!
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Where have all the websites gone?
Reposted Where have all the websites gone? by .
“It’s a technical marvel, that internet. Something so mindblowingly impressive that if you showed it to someone even thirty years ago, their face would melt the fuck off. So why does it feel like something’s missing? Why are we all so collectively unhappy with the state of the web?”
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So you’ve decided to get into mechanical keyboards
Reposted So you’ve decided to get into mechanical keyboards by .
After mechanical watches, this seems like the next logical step.
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Stumbling in the dark
Reposted Stumbling in the dark by .
“… anywhere that growth is happening, you’ll quickly see that everyone is stumbling forward in the shadows.”
Stumbling forward in the shadows is cumbersome. It doesn’t feel like much. So it’s easy to forget that it’s the only way forward. Or, part of the deal, as Seth said.
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Clippy returned (as an unnecessary “AI”)
Reposted Clippy returned (as an unnecessary “AI”) by .
“We’ve got to think about whether or not the features we build with this are actually useful, actually unnecessary or somewhere in between. We don’t have to add “AI” to every product, even in an industry where we see investors push for that, we can choose to do otherwise.”
I have strong feelings about generative AI. But Hidde’s example is but one of the many ways it has kinda already jumped the shark.
