Tags · social-software

• 12-Dec-2022
  Popehat exits Twitter I have been a fan of Ken White for quite a while. He’s the sort of contrarian thinker who nonetheless is able to actually have convictions about civil liberties. His assessments read as evenhanded to me, which does sometimes make them frustrating to read, but he leavens these views in a way that makes me...

  popehatsocial-mediasocial-softwaretwitter
• 23-Nov-2022
  I’m over on Mastodon For those few of you who also follow my Twitter account you may have noticed a severe drop off in my participation on that site. The overall quality of interaction there, along with the aggressively poor behavior of the owner has been enough of a prompt for me to step away from it to a...

  fediversemastodonsocial-mediasocial-software
• 16-Nov-2022
  Predicted. Quote of the Day Running Twitter Isn’t Rocket Science. It’s Harder by Clive Thompson. In the near future, Musk and his engineers may yearn for the days when their hardest job was merely landing reusable rockets. from October 29 of this year

  social-mediasocial-softwaretwitter
• 03-Nov-2022
  Twitter went private, then it got weird. I’ve been using twitter since October 2006. That’s not a short amount of time to be using a service. 16 years! It’s deeply weird to return to what was once called “internet time.” Internet time was what we called the era where brand new web pages or services would pop up and get massively popular...

  social-mediasocial-software
• 30-Nov-2021
  Why are so many folks compelled by web3? I think this describes it well, by Robin Rendle: The future feels like it’s already owned by Google or Facebook or some other enormous corporate interest, so I can understand that impulse to create something new like web3 because of that. Read the whole thing. I suspect people–particularly younger people–see “just websites” created by individuals...

  indieweblinkrotsocial-mediasocial-softwareweb3webdev
• 26-Jun-2020
  Hot Tubbing an Online Community by Caleb John Clark, 1999 Some years ago I read Caleb John Clark’s essay (blog post, really) about online community and it has stuck with me ever since. It’s currently not easily searchable on the web. A shame. I am extracting it from the Internet Archive and placing the text here. “Hot Tubbing an Online Community” Caleb John Clark, January...

  indienewsindieweblistservpsychologysocial-mediasocial-software
• 20-Mar-2019

  
  Farewell Google+: “Save your Google+ content before March 31, 2019” Today in Google shutdown notices: You’ve received this email because you have content in Google+ for your personal (consumer) account or a Google+ page you manage. This is a reminder that on April 2, 2019 we’re shutting down consumer Google+ and will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts. Photos and videos from Google+ in...

  googlegoogle-plusshutdownsocial-software
• 23-Apr-2018

  
  SmugMug and Flickr: Best wishes, we’re in this together! Got this email the other day: We’re excited to announce that Flickr has agreed to be acquired by SmugMug, the photography platform dedicated to visual storytellers. SmugMug has a long history of empowering people who love photography and who want to improve their craft, making them a perfect fit for Flickr and our creative community....

  flickrphotossmugmugsocial-software
• 09-Mar-2018

  
  Squished expression and the President of the United States Is Trump’s Twitter a Public Forum and the Limits of the Law by Eric Segall has me thinking quite a a bit about this question: WHAT IS TWITTER? I think about the Presidential Records Act and what it says about the things the President does in his official capacity. I think about the fact that...

  Content Management Systemcontent-filteringpoliticssocial-software
• 01-Mar-2018

  
  In 200 years someone will wonder what the heck AIM was. In 2003 I blogged this to AOL Journals: I once had a fellow student give me this aphorism which i really like: the more competencies you have, the more deviancies you are allowed. blogging via im makes it easy to blog and not get really distracted into writing something good. the downside is that it...

  aimAOLbloggerbloggingsocial-software