It’s interesting that so much online publishing is moving into a small handful of massive, closed, proprietary networks after being so distributed and diverse during the big boom of blogs and RSS almost a decade ago.
In many ways, we’re better off now: publishing online is far easier, less time-consuming, and more accessible than it has ever been, which has brought content, voices, and consumers online that wouldn’t have been otherwise.
But all of these proprietary networks that want to own and hold in your content are reversing much of the web’s progress in some other areas, such as the durability and quality of online identity.
If you care about your online presence, you must own it.
I have nothing to say, really.
Fuck off.
Our Digital Crisis
Worth reading, even though I don’t necessarily agree with many things he says: Our Digital Crisis [via] What resonated most with me and which always has been at the core of my interest and love for this spectacular and gruesome world that we call the internet:
Instead of fleeing to the forest, we must find the humanity in the machine and learn to love it.
Now Playing: The Chemical Brothers – Let Forever Be
Bookmarks for March 19th through March 20th
These are my links for March 19th through March 20th:
- Scott Adams Blog: Rule of Twelve – Oh, good to know.
- JeffCroft.com: A look at Foursquare and Gowalla – Two highly-anticipated, location-based, IRL-style “games” for iPhone were launched at South By Southwest Interactive this year, and I thought I’d take a few moments to report on my experiences with each one.
- EC2 for Poets (Scripting News) – I'll listen to it someday.
- Commentarii de bello Gallico – Wikisource – Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt.
- vowe dot net :: Obama’s Gift To British Prime Minister Rendered Useless By DRM – Prime Minister Gordon Brown, was recently given a gift of 25 DVDs of classic American movies by US President Barack Obama. When Brown sat down to watch one of them, he found he couldn't — because Obama had given him Region 1 DVDs, unplayable in Brown's Region 2 DVD player.
- Overly judgemental IE6 splash pages – Go play Fantasy Football
- My Facebook, My Self – Turns out, the very perception of what is public versus what is private is a fundamentally generational conceit. It is also, as it happens, a visual one.