Wafer thin
Month: January 2020
In HI12 I mentioned Ben Shneiderman’s talk on automation and agency, and he kindly sent me the full draft of the article he is writing on this topic. New to me was the Sheridan-Verplank Scale of Autonomy, which, come on, sounds like something straight out of Blade Runner:
Alexis Madrigal (The Atlantic)A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.
Matthew Bogart (matthewbogart.net)I’m not much of a blogger but I’ve always wanted to be. The value of keeping a blog for reasons beyond just sharing links to my work has been obvious to me for a while now. Watching folks like Austin Kleon, Andy Baio, John Gruber, Mark Evanier and others post week in and week out, I’ve yearned...
Congratulations Matthew!
If no one has invited you yet, the IndieWeb Summit is coming up in June in your backyard. There’s also an upcoming online camp in early February.
Andy Hunter, the cofounder of Electric Literature and Literary Hub, launches Bookshop, an e-commerce platform that promises indie bookstores a way to take back sales from Amazon.
Screenshots are disposable, but highlights are forever. ❧
Highlighting this sentence on the Highly blog (on Medium) ironically using Hypothes.is. I’m syndicating a copy over to my own website because I know that most social services are not long for this world. The only highlights that live forever are the ones you keep on your own website or another location that you own and control.
RIP Highly.
Viva IndieWeb!