This is frustrating. I just wanted to read the one sentence! pic.twitter.com/y0g6OgimcD
— Lior Pachter (@lpachter) December 21, 2018
Wikipedia also has a slightly longer unpacking of it.
Mark Zuckerberg began the year promising that he would fix Facebook. He didn’t, and 2018 has only presented more problems.
César A. Hidalgo (Scientific American Blog Network)What is knowledge? How does it disseminate? And what’s its value?
My Attempt at Representing #IndieWeb in an Image. pic.twitter.com/HdgSTa1PGh
— Greg McVerry (@jgmac1106) December 20, 2018
I agree with last 2 RTs. Blogs are great. I wish we all used them. But we don’t have a simple enough blogging product with people-connecting features for people to replace FB with a blog. #indieweb is making the infrastructure but we need a better producthttps://t.co/L6B8leTO52
— Ed Johnson-Williams (@_edjw) December 21, 2018How would you think such a better #indieweb product would come into existence? Funding? Business model?
— Johannes Ernst (@Johannes_Ernst) December 21, 2018Same way all #IndieWeb tools are built, someone has a personal goal for their site and they build it, then someone else wants it, then someone else wants. We are economic agnostic (though I am personally pulling for co-op models) (https://t.co/4hn8K9vFW0)
— Greg McVerry (@jgmac1106) December 21, 2018There is a big difference in how much time and effort it takes to make something work for yourself, or for many other users. In the #indieweb world, we have managed to do the first, but not the second IMHO.
— Johannes Ernst (@Johannes_Ernst) December 21, 2018Isn’t thatthe same? If I need something to work for me, I go out and find something that works for someone else and repurpose. So it needn’t work for 'many users', it needs to work every time anew, a myriad of individual instances. The ‘invisible hand of networks’, not markets.
— Ton Zijlstra (@ton_zylstra) December 21, 2018Though I fully agree that entails driving down the barrier to entry for people to be able to do that down tremendously, and then drive it down tremendously once more. Not something we’re doing currently.
— Ton Zijlstra (@ton_zylstra) December 21, 2018
At the same time, innovations along the lines of what micro.blog is doing are very important.
Ken Doctor (Nieman Lab)From paywalls to politics, pipes companies to public radio, the Post to The Post, podcasting to partnerships, and the press to a president.
The lesson, again, and again: Unique voices supported by subscribers point a way forward. ❧
December 21, 2018 at 06:47PM
Check out the Times or the Post these days, though, and it is a different world. Stories of greatest import can sometimes stay atop phone screens for much of the day. ❧
December 21, 2018 at 06:52PM
Errin Haines Whack (Nieman Lab)"We are not in the hint business; we are here to report facts, including the difficult facts of racism."
Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and digital media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. Here’s what they had to say.
Matt Karolian (Nieman Lab)"We need to learn from the mistakes *we made* and collectively build better guardrails for the industry, ensuring that we don't make these mistakes with large platform partners again."