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The Web of Relationships We Have to Save
medium.com
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IN RESPONSE TO The Web We Have to Save... Unlike a blogger, it’s very hard to isolate and ban Facebook or Twitter. A blogger can be placed in jail, a network of people on a platform with millions of users is much harder... [BUT] these platforms have their own censorship mechanisms... Facebook is doing better now but ... many things were bloc…

The Web We Have to Save
medium.com
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The rich, diverse, free web that I loved - and spent years in an Iranian jail for - is dying.Why is nobody stopping it?... The hyperlink was my currency six years ago... represented the open, interconnected spirit of the world wide web ... a way to abandon centralization ... and replace them with something more distributed, a system of nodes an…

If you don’t like algorithms, you probably wont like the future of Twitter
gigaom.com
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"this is a slippery slope at best: once you have made the decision to alter the flow ... based on abstract criteria programmed into an algorithm, then at some point you are going to decide ... to hide or remove certain things ... to improve the signal-to-noise ratio ... The whole point of having a social network in the first place is that the peo…

Your audience isn’t your social network
medium.com
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Another alternative to Big Internet? "By placing our online personas in a few centralized locations, we make them vulnerable to single points of failure... We designed Known to be a focal point for your content. You control where it’s hosted (whether it’s on our service or somewhere else); you decide what it looks like; you choose what you post a…

25/10/2014
Facebook Rides a Wave of Web 1.0 Nostalgia
nymag.com
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"It's also possible to see Rooms, Ello, and Tilde.club as a rebuke of the new internet _ a place dominated by designed-by-committee apps that raise millions before the first users even sign up, where interactions are either real and largely mundane (Facebook, Instagram, most of Twitter), or shadowy and toxic (Yik Yak, Reddit, 4chan). These new exp…

24/10/2014
From longform renaissance to Big Internet disenchantment (#B2B4ME part 2)
mathewlowry.myhub.ai

As I mentioned in my previous post, the past couple of years have seen a lot of innovation in online content strategy, coupled with growing disenchantment with "Big Internet".

#B2B4ME: Back to Blogging
mathewlowry.myhub.ai

B2B once meant 'Business to Business'. After the first online bubble popped, it became 'Back to Banking' (alongside its close cousin 'Back to Consulting'), as legions beat a retreat to the safety of corporate life. And now, perhaps, it means Back to Blogging, and apparently not just for me.

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