dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
Here's some words attempting to describe and mark out the Little Printer, er, vibe:
• intimate
• cosy
• personal
• small
• friendly
• furniture
• art
• ornament
• personality
• homely
• family
• friends
Dan Hon • S16e08: Free-Range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise
Realistically, though, I won’t quit Twitter until it shuts down completely. It’s habit. It’s sense memory. It’s compulsion
Embedded • My Internet: Kaitlyn Tiffany
Here at CREEM, we’re not building the biggest audience of digital tourists. Creem.com doesn’t have ads; we don’t publish free content. If you want SEO-friendly music news like dozens of other sites do, don’t waste your time, CREEM isn’t for you.
John Martin
HELLO, I'M SETH WERKHEISER
As part of its purpose in slowing news down (hence the name), and taking time to make sense of what’s really going on in the world rather than just react to the immediate, Tortoise’s editorial team hosts weekly online ‘Open News Think-Ins’ at which they discuss the news stories of the week with the subscriber community. They start the conversation
... See moreJon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Our modest goal with Substack is to help accelerate and amplify the advent of the culture future through a better media system. Culture is not just about getting what you want; it is about learning what to want. It shapes our values, beliefs, identity, taste, and how we relate to other people. And in turn, we shape it, when we choose what to pay... See more
Chris Best • The Two Futures of Media
the world is a surprisingly malleable place and has reconfigured itself around compelling visions many times before
If you’re posting on social media or any platform with an algorithm, the real question is: do you work for the algorithm or are you committed to working for the people who want to go where you hope to take them?
Seth Godin • Feeding the algorithm
Search engines — the window into the web for many people — top their results with pages containing thousands of words of auto-generated nothingness, perfectly optimized for search engine prominence and to pull in money via ads and affiliate links while simultaneously devoid of any useful information.
Social networks have become “the web” for many... See more
Social networks have become “the web” for many... See more
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