
Bluesky
The Bluesky explosion and the Substack trap
The Twitter offshoot is edging towards becoming an X replacement — and two old school web thinkers critique Substack
Bluesky
The Twitter offshoot is edging towards becoming an X replacement — and two old school web thinkers critique Substack
open web
In the year of our Lord 2024, some websites are still trying to control who links to them.
social & digital lunchbreak
A storm in a teacup around changes coming to Apple's news app, some thoughts on Reels, and a toxicity round-up. Happy Monday!
engaged reading digest
Some great links to start your year.
tumblr
An interview with a Verizon suit makes it clear that Tumblr is a hollow shell of what it once was. What does this say for the experimentation the web once offered?
Blogging
Beware the roach motels of the platforms - if content is your business, you still need to own and publish it yourself.
freshness
Our obsession with organising everything around the latest content may be destroying the greatest value the web holds.
tim berners lee
When the creator of the World Wide Web is fighting to change how it operates, you know we’ve got a big problem. But what role did journalism play in this?
indieweb
For the last couple of months, I’ve been really enjoying using micro.blog [https://micro.blog], a Kickstarted Twitter-like microblogging service. It has made some interesting design choices – like not disclosing how many people follow you, and keeping Favourites as a purely personal bookmarking tool – that tend to promote
attention
Jason Kottke on why Facebook won: [https://kottke.org/17/12/stop-using-facebook-and-start-using-your-browser] > […] using Facebook instead of just bookmarks is compelling in the same way that shopping at Walmart instead of small-town shops was in the 80s. We blame Walmart for decimating small businesses, but ultimately, small town shoppers chose
Blogging
Zeldman [http://www.zeldman.com/2013/12/11/this-is-a-website/]: > Yes, recycling other people’s recycling of other people’s recycling of cat gifs is fun and easy on Tumblr. Yes, rubbing out a good bon mot on Twitter can satisfy one’s ego and rekindle a wistful remembrance of