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On presuming competence
A few weeks ago, while our car honked its way through dense traffic in Delhi, I imagined an Onion headline: American Visitor Seeks To Explain What He’ll Never Understand About India. By the norms of traffic laws in countries where people tend to obey them, vehicular and pedestrian traffic in the dense parts of Indian… Continue reading
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Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing
Let’s start with Facebook’s Surveillance Machine, by Zeynep Tufekci in last Monday’s New York Times. Among other things (all correct), Zeynep explains that “Facebook makes money, in other words, by profiling us and then selling our attention to advertisers, political actors and others. These are Facebook’s true customers, whom it works hard to please.” Irony… Continue reading
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On cryptocurrencies, blockchain and all that
Take a look at this chart: CryptoCurrency Market Capitalizations As Neo said, Whoa. To help me get my head fully around all that’s going on behind that surge, or mania, or whatever it is, I’ve composed a lexicon-in-process that I’m publishing here so I can find it again. Here goes::: Bitcoin. “A cryptocurrency and a… Continue reading
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Daily Tab for 2017_06_09
#Publishing When I heard that Backchannel would be moving to Wired while Google’s Contributor service (“buy an ad removal pass for the web”) was not only rolling out, but already deployed by some publishers (e.g. by Business Insider UK)—and while Wired (with the rest of Condé Nast) was still mistaking tracking protection for ad blocking (and hitting readers with… Continue reading
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Exploring the business behind digital media’s invisibility cloaks
Imagine you’re on a busy city street where everybody who disagrees with you disappears. We have that city now. It’s called media—especially the social kind. You can see how this works on Wall Street Journal‘s Blue Feed, Red Feed page. Here’s a screen shot of the feed for “Hillary Clinton” (one among eight polarized… Continue reading
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Tabs by the dozens, part 1
After accumulating more than a thousand tabs (in OneTab) over the last few months, I whittled the collection down to a couple hundred, which I’ll post at a rate of a couple dozen or so at a time. I’ll start by highlighting two new posts in Stephen Lewis’ excellent Bubkes.Org: Multiple Faces of Istanbul: Mannequins,… Continue reading
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Friday Linklings
Okay, today I’m going to try outlining the links I piled up before 8:45am this morning. (#VRM request to @Wordpress: put an outliner in the composing window, or whatever you call the space where I’m writing this. Also, quit putting slashes through the @ when @-handles are copied and pasted in Visual mode from @Twitter.… Continue reading
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Pile o’ Links #3
I’d say more, but it’s torture to reorganize (much less outline under topical headings) and annotate this stuff in WordPress’ composing window (or whatever you call it). American Demagogue – The New Yorker. Good one by David Remnick. No news, though. Millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump. Here’s why | Thomas Frank | Opinion… Continue reading
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Pile ‘o links #2
This continues my pre-Spring housecleaning of remembered tabs. #1 is here. The spork, the pressure cooker, and the back burner … | deadpenguinsociety. Great collection of links, including “Second order Doc Searls effects.” VRM — the flipside of CRM breaks out (part 1) — diginomica VRM — the flipside of CRM breaks out (part 2)… Continue reading
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Pile ‘o links #1
I use OneTab to move all my open tabs into a single list on a Web page. But then that gets unwieldy too. So now I’m moving a bunch over here. Although it’s a sloooow process inside WordPress’ composition window (or whatever this is called). So I’ll stop trying to edit this page and start… Continue reading
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Bag ‘o tabs
I have accumulated a ridiculous sum of open tabs and closed ones collected in OneTab pages. Here’s a selection from just the latest collection, for your reading pleasure. Stuff I’ve said Giving silos their due, in Linux Journal. Phil Windley responds with Decentralization is hard, maybe too hard. Part I of an interview by Simon… Continue reading
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Valley Fire losses
Here is the current perimeter of the Valley Fire, according to the USGS’ GEOMAC viewer: As you see, no places are identified there. One in particular, however, is of extremely special interest to me: Harbin Hot Springs. That’s where I met my wife and made more friends than I can count. It is, or was, … Continue reading
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We can all make TV. Now what?
Look where Meerkat and Periscope point. I mean, historically. They vector toward a future where anybody anywhere can send live video out to the glowing rectangles of the world. If you’ve looked at the output of either, several things become clear about their inevitable evolutionary path: Mobile phone/data systems will get their gears stripped, in both… Continue reading
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Live blogging
Perhaps you’ve noticed that I’ve been quiet here for a bit. One reason is that I’ve been traveling almost constantly, and not always in the best position to blog (or even tweet). Another is that I’ve been liveblogging instead. So here, latest first, is a list of liveblog postings since my last post here: May… Continue reading
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Giant Snow Fail Link Sale
Somebody at The New Yorker calls office junk (the kind you save until you toss because you’re moving) “accretions of intention.” Same goes for open tabs. So here are my closed ones, accreted now on a blog rather than in my tabs or my brain: Triangulation 186 | TWiT.TV Recorded yesterday. Good one. Le véritable… Continue reading
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Tabbing along late on a Monday
I’m not ready to tell you what I was working on today (There’s a tease, huh?), but I can share the tabs I had open: Andy Carvin (@acarvin) on Twitter: “Twitter will be @reportedly’s home base. We’re also on reddit at http://t.co/vW2wka61cl, FB at http://t.co/pLjKRZA4Xx, medium @ reported.ly.” That’s the announcement. A long, somewhat informative… Continue reading
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Some tabs to start the week
Here ya go: Hats Off to MozillaMy column for the January issue of Linux Journal. Firefox — Notes (34.0.5) — Mozilla More changes since I wrote the above. The magic of working together Dave on working with David Weinberger and me on something. (Stay tuned.) BTW, Dave, David and I all have the same first… Continue reading
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Tabbing into the New Year
Some tabs I just closed, with reasons why I had them open… Optimism: A Driving Force of Human Evolution | The Technology of Us Don Peppers, who put the book together, makes clear why he’s been a guiding light for the duration. Amazon.com: The Technology of Us: Getting to the heart of humanity in a… Continue reading