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“Is an independent web our only hope?” Michael Casey’s answer: www.youtube.com/watch
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Gizmodo on NetNewsWire's Relaunch: "One of the Best RSS Readers Is Back"
Great Gizmodo write up on the relaunch of #NewNewsWire: “Despite what companies like Apple and Facebook claim, you don’t need a giant corporation telling you what news stories you should read every morning. Nearly every website (worth reading) still operates an RSS feed. And now one of the oldest and most robust RSS readers, NetNewsWire, is back from the dead and worth your consideration again.” gizmodo.com/one-of-th… Continue reading →
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So via Daring Fireball, John Gruber: Facebook’s ‘Clear History’ Tool Is, of Course, Bullshit
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Zeldman on Web 8 Interaction Design, Jeffrey Zeldman: Browser diversity starts with us.
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Great to see #NetNewsWire 5.0 shipping today! Has become my primary RSS reader. ranchero.com/netnewswi…
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Good look at new features in Apple’s Health 13… www.macrumors.com/guide/hea…
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After the Automattic purhase, I got some hope back that #Tumblr might become more of an ally to the #openweb. So I have recreated an account there, but only to syndicate to from my main account I own fully. timothyjchambers.tumblr.com
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"Why Freedom of Thought Requires Attention"
He opens with “Freedom of thought requries media that don’t listen to and watch and survielle us as we use them…media that consumes us, in the end consumes freedom of thought.” A friend’s review: “I really liked his point that it’s not required to invent new stuff to fix what’s wrong today but “just” to undo stuff that went wrong in last years. Aligned very well with the idea of #indieweb and the fediverse. Continue reading →
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You really should always read the Terms of Service agreements closely. “We have updated our privacy policy.” #privacy
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"Firefox and Chrome Fight Back Against Kazakhstan's Spying"
Good on them: " Now, Google, Mozilla, and Apple are incorporating technical protections into their Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browsers to fight back…the three companies are announcing new defenses that block the Kazakhstan government’s traffic-interception mechanism." www.wired.com/story/chr… Continue reading →
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“Scaling the City Walls”
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Summary of some highlights from The Web Conference 2019 that recently wrapped up… #TheWebConf #www2019 http://simia.net/wiki/Web_Conference_2019
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Co-sign on every bit of this. #privacy #data
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How to opt out of human review of your voice assistant recordings by Mozilla…. foundation.mozilla.org/en/campai…
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A good podcast on Tumblr purchase and open web and #microblog: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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How fragmented and interested our technology encourages us to be: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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ActivityPub Conference 2019 – Speakers announced redaktor.me/apconf/
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"It’s Time to End ‘Trending'"
Why it is good – as #Mastodon and #Microdotblog does – to still keep human admins in the mix on surfacing “trending” items: “The first problem with [FB and Twitter] “trending” is that it selects and highlights content with no eye toward accuracy, or quality. Automated trending systems are not equipped to make judgments; they can determine if things are being shared, but they cannot determine whether that content should be shared further. Continue reading →
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Hopefully, this is a good thing for a more #openweb. poststatus.com/automatti…
