dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
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 pe... See more
Social networks have become “the web” for many pe... See more
vis Molly White
That's the thing with the internet. It is not a singular place: the internet is made up by many internets. Some are connected, and some are not. This makes it hard to talk about the internet because your internet is unlikely to be similar to mine. Even when we visit the same social site, we experience different worlds. Where D sees a subcategory of... See more
March 27 at 13:24
distribution soul searching
Troy Young • No, The Web Is Not Dead
the new reality: chat pulls knowledge and attention away from pages on the internet.
The web has an almost infinite capacity for storage and memory yet its prevailing use is an acceleration of ephemerality. The reasons for this are complex to say the least (of which financial short term gain is probably the most prevalent). But this doesn’t mean the tendency can’t be resisted. Perhaps books as well as their online s
... See moreFolkert Gorter • Clippings by Folkert Gorter
There is the potential and reality of amazing, positive, good things coming from the Internet even though it's driving force is convenience. Because humans don't only have mundane desires. They have amazing desires. They have desires to make art and music and funny card games. And they have desire to help people and to do science. And the Internet ... See more
JamesClear.com • "A Journey on the Information Highway"
a place where I can unearth the stories within the landscape as it is still unfolding. It is a place where I can dream of what could be…not only for myself but for the collective, the real world that I’m a part of
Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination
Kaskie: We are not trying to be everything to everybody. We’re trying to be something to someone.
Dan Kois • The Oral History of Pitchfork, From the Careers It Made to the Bands It Killed
Chris Kaskie quote from Pitchfork
An Albert Einstein quote: “Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
Even though on the Internet, we’re just a click away from t... See more