Month: June 2019
📺 "The Newsroom" What Kind of Day Has It Been | Netflix
Directed by Alan Poul. With Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill. The team looks forward as they mourn the loss of a coworker.
I’d noticed it before, but there’s an episode of The West Wing with this same title (as well as several other Sorkin series).
The funeral scenes were shot at The Church of Our Saviour in San Gabriel. I immediately recognized it from having been there frequently, but even moreso because I happened to have been there on the day they shot the episode. I think my car may have been visible in one of the long shot scenes.
👓 Proposing a 'Declaration of Digital Independence' | WIRED | Larry Sanger
Opinion: Larry Sanger, the cofounder of Wikipedia and chief information officer of Everipedia, suggests how to spark a decentralized social media movement.
👓 Looking for this #IndieWeb Tool | Timothy Chambers
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.
👓 The cheater in the Oval Office should be banished from the tribe | LA Times
Think Trump didn't know he was getting a shady assist at the ballot box. Read the Mueller report.
❤️ btopro tweeted expect a lot of #domains19 thoughts today and tomorrow. It’ll be a mixed bag as far as thoughts and rephrasing what people say here. I haven’t been to a non code focused event in far too long. It’s nice already to hear critiques of the LMS as a concept leading to many other issue
expect a lot of #domains19 thoughts today and tomorrow. It'll be a mixed bag as far as thoughts and rephrasing what people say here. I haven't been to a non code focused event in far too long. It's nice already to hear critiques of the LMS as a concept leading to many other issue
— Bryan ✻llendyke (@btopro) June 10, 2019
📑 We Have Never Been Social | Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Kathleen Fitzpatrick)I imagine that the first part of this project will focus on how it got to be this way, what got missed or ignored in some of the early warnings about what was happening online and how those warnings were swamped by the hype depicting the Internet as a space of radical democratization. ❧
I love the brewing idea here. We definitely need this.
Some broad initial bibliography from the top of my head:
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshona Zuboff (Public Affairs)
- Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
- Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci (Yale)
Larry Sanger (co-founder of Wikipedia)
- How to decentralize social media—a brief sketch
- Proposing a “Declaration of Digital Independence”, (WIRED 3/19)
- Version history for “Declaration of Digital Independence”
I’ve seen via personal correspondence, should be publicly available soon: - Declaration of Digital Independence
- FAQ about the project to decentralize social media
- Social Media Strike!
Some useful history/timelines:
I’m curious if you’d publicly share your current blbliography/reading list?
📑 We Have Never Been Social | Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Kathleen Fitzpatrick)Contravening that force is going to require something more than personal control, promoting something other than atomization. ❧
📑 We Have Never Been Social | Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Kathleen Fitzpatrick)So this is where some older paths-not-taken, such as Ted Nelson’s original many-to-many, multidirectional model for hypertext, and some more recent potential paths, such as Herbert van de Sompel’s decentralized, distributed vision for scholarly communication, might come in. ❧
Herbert van de Sompel sounds familiar but I’m not placing him at the moment. I’ll have to read his work with respect to some of my ideas on academic samizdat.
👓 We Have Never Been Social | Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Kathleen Fitzpatrick)Last week, I had the pleasure of chatting with Bryan Alexander on his Future Trends Forum. We were primarily focused on Generous Thinking, but by way of having me introduce myself, Bryan asked what I’m working on this year. I mentioned that I’m in the early research phases of what might turn out to be a new project — which is to say, I have a pretty inchoate idea and I’m doing a lot of reading this summer trying to figure out whether there’s a there there. Late in our conversation, however, the discussion turned back to that project idea, and given that I’ve now shared it on video (soon to be available on YouTube), I thought it might behoove me to commit a bit of that idea here.
Kathleen outlines her next project, something we definitely need.
📑 We Have Never Been Social | Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Kathleen Fitzpatrick)That is to say: if the problem has not been the centralized, corporatized control of the individual voice, the individual’s data, but rather a deeper failure of sociality that precedes that control, then merely reclaiming ownership of our voices and our data isn’t enough. If the goal is creating more authentic, more productive forms of online sociality, we need to rethink our platforms, the ways they function, and our relationships to them from the ground up. It’s not just a matter of functionality, or privacy controls, or even of business models. It’s a matter of governance. ❧
📑 The Soothing Promise of Our Own Artisanal Internet | WIRED
Nitasha Tiku (WIRED)To put our toxic relationship with Big Tech into perspective, critics have compared social media to a lot of bad things. Tobacco. Crystal meth. Pollution. Cars before seat belts. Chemicals before Superfund sites. But the most enduring metaphor is junk food: convenient but empty; engineered to be addictive; makes humans unhealthy and corporations rich. ❧
📑 We Have Never Been Social | Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Kathleen Fitzpatrick)What are the crucial texts and ideas I should be engaging with? ❧
I’d also look at doing some interviews as well. Starting with Tantek Çelik, Kevin Marks, (both previously of Technorati in the early blogging days, pre social), Dave Winer, Anil Dash, David Weinberger, and Doc Searles.
👓 My work is to take care of myself. | Kimberly Hirsh
Kimberly Hirsh (kimberlyhirsh.com)I’m still on hiatus from social media activity and comments on my blog posts are still closing after only 1 day. But there are some things that I want to capture in this space immediately, rather than waiting until I “come back,” and there are some things that I think could benefit other peopl...
Sending my best wishes… keep your chin up and let us know if we can be of any help.
Also thanks for the reminder that we should take care of ourselves. Too often one can forget…
Also thanks for the reminder that we should take care of ourselves. Too often one can forget…