I’m completely sold on this: “Proposing a ‘Declaration of Digital Independence" - www.wired.com/story/lar…

Chandelier Stairwell

Important #Firefox upgrade for privacy and speed. Good. That is what every Firefox update from here on out should be focused on a like a laser.

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Looking for an #Indieweb tool for personal aggregation of social media. Maybe a bit like Feedly, a bit like Nuzzel, but more specifically a webtool that aggregates and does a pesonal curation and display of Twitter Lists, Facebook feeds, YouTube Subscriptions, and if possible FB Groups, and displays the content that I hand curated in one dashboard. In a way in the same fashion that #Microblog supports keeping publishing to social networks syndicated out and at arms length, would be good to find a toolset that curates the consumption from social nets, and gets around the main feed algorythms and enables more hand curation of what you see from them more easily. Continue reading →

That’s more like it, #Nasa

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Purple bike

This is cool, from @menton on #microblog supporting integration any blog that uses Webmentions… “In a post on Micro.blog, you can @-mention someone’s blog by including @domain.com in the post, using their domain name. If that blogger’s site supports Webmention, Micro.blog will send your mention to their blog, where it could be included as a comment."< www.manton.org/2019/05/1… Continue reading →

Saint Francis in a garden

Circles

Audience of one.

Atlantic and me.

Very, very worth a read…A great state of play on tech and politics - as it is every year… www.epolitics.com/winning/

Jeff Zeldman asks really good questions here: (and I also posted this to my open #Microblog: “Along those same lines, can the IndieWeb, and products of IndieWeb thinking like Micro.blog, save us? Might they at least provide an alternative to the toxic aspects of our current social web, and restore the ownership of our data and content? And before you answer, RTFM. On an individual and small collective basis, the IndieWeb already works. Continue reading →

This is a big launch, good for them: “Experience the new CC Search, now with 300 million images from 19 collections, easier attribution, an elegant redesign, faster load times, and more relevant results.” creativecommons.org/2019/04/3…

A solid argument for the #indieweb - and that it needs to be as “friction free” and as easy to use as closed sollutions: I had the opportunity to witness an early Internet so I was not natively exposed to the psychological threats that newly born platforms like Facebook or Instagram have built in. It’s amazing to me that in a matter of few years, apps like Instagram evolved from an indie type of platform for wannabe photographers into a vanity tool and status broadcasting. Continue reading →

I agree - trying to create a closed walled garden for podcasts - deserves to fail:

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Looking forward to this season of the podcast. “Unbreak the Internet.” #Microblog is definitely one of the tools trying to help unbreak things. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…

“The Sky is Now Her Limit” 1920 …with the bottom rung “slavery” and the top “Presidency.”

An important snapshot and a an appropriately mixed picture of the health of the Internet.

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