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An interesting observation: “Rust, not Firefox, is Mozilla’s greatest industry contribution.” www.techrepublic.com/article/r…
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Reacting to Twitter’s BlueSky project, Mark Nadal offers “A Decentralized Protocol Proposal…” hackernoon.com/twitter-b…
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Reimagine the Internet: knightcolumbia.org/events/re…
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“Why the Indieweb? …This is the story of the birth of the web, its loss of innocence, its decline, and what we can do to make it a bit less gross.” - briefs.video/videos/wh…
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All the reasons NOT to use Disqus as your #blog commenting system: supunkavinda.blog/disqus
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Lots of small improvements peppered inside Wordpress 7.1 beta: wordpress.org/news/2021…
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Will be interested in seeing how this works out. Open Source License with a code of conduct requirement, but with teeth. writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/1…
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Thunderbird 78, Email client, Calander, Contacts, RSS reader, and OTR chat client. OpenPGP, Hopefully soon ActivitySub reader. Glad it is still around and innovating. support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/…
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#Mozilla’s 2020 report looking back at the year and the state of Internet Health. Lists healthy and unhealty trends for the Internet. Much to do. 2020.internethealthreport.org
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Wikipedia just turned 20 years old this month and I missed it. That site is one of the best things the Internet has ever done. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki…
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Important report by #BlueSky project at Twitter: “This overview of the decentralized social ecosystem is structured by protocols, applications, and topics. The protocols and applications sectionscontain summaries of existing projects.” is.gd/Lva1tt
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iA Writer Adds Expanded Support for IndieWeb Tools and WordPress Publishing. is.gd/oyNBvH
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A good guide to the best and the worst tech gifts in terms of #privacy from Mozilla: gizmodo.com/these-are…
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Newsletters and Podcasts as new Open Content Platforms
I agree, Podcasts and Newsletters (functionaly blogs) give me great hope and are some of the best digital content I find these days. Main comerical social networks remain wastelands. From the Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp & HEY: “There’s something incredibly beautiful about the rise of both podcasts and newsletters in an age dominated by the walled gardens of big tech. Two basic forms of distribution that rely not on proprietary platforms, but on free and open standards, devoid of corporate lock-in " Continue reading →
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I agree with this post, and it is a very good argument for the open web for authors and creators.
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“The best and most beautiful things in the world…” (found while hiking yesterday)…
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Increasingly, post-COVID, weekend cleaning of the house is less like “picking up a bit” and more like Apollo13 crew cleaning out the LEM.
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Email as a Key Element of the Open Web -- And Hey! Review
I agree with this: email is a key function of the #openweb. Very important that we keep it so. Looking forward to trying out Hey.com…. Email is the rare open platform that works for everyone. But it’s changing. Three companies — Google, Microsoft and Verizon (which owns Yahoo and AOL) — control the overwhelming majority of the email universe. Google is particularly powerful, growing as the others slowly fade. Jacob Bank, Gmail’s product manager, told me in 2017 that Gmail was already powerful enough to be able to set standards in a supposedly open ecosystem, and that power has only increased since then. Continue reading →
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“But aren’t blogs dead? · Um, nope.” www.tbray.org/ongoing/W…
