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There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.
Mike Caufield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
Jimmy Wales described it in 2004, was to create “a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” The following year, Wales also stated, “We help the internet not suck.
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“librarians are what the internet is aching for—people on task to care about the past, with respect to the past and also to what it shall bequeath to the future.” Can we reimagine libraries for the digital age?
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
Hollis Robbins: Most people focus on the vast reserves of content now available online, but few people ask: “Is this a good teacher?”
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
Wikipedia acts as a certifier of basic information for many people, including reporters.
Ryan Holiday • Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
The search experience on the internet is dying. Google is no longer trying to organize the world’s information. It’s just scraping it, stealing it, and serving an AI generated mashup of everything it steals from human creators in an effort to keep people on the first page of search results, because that’s where their ads are and where they make the
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“human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.”
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
