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Online, we need to make the big feel smaller, in the right ways. The challenge to start small from something that is currently controlled by Facebook and Google, is very hard. But people are doing it. Look at The Correspondent, or Open Culture, or Brain Pickings, or thousands of other small projects that have good communities around them. We need m... See more
Vicki Boykis • Good things don't scale
Technology must support the work of human politics, not replace it.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
A lot of the most important work that public institutions do is the most laborious, it's the most time consuming. It's the first thing that you would optimize away if you were trying to increase the profitability of your VC library, right?
Eli Pariser • How Urban Planning Could Help Build Better Online Spaces | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Zoom Bachelorette, Minimum Viable Shows, and the nature of celebrity in quarantine
Li Jinli.substack.com
This Is What the Future of Media Looks Like | Hamish Mckenzie | TED
youtube.comThe character of the verbs follows the biases present in the new technologies, a bias all technologies share. While we creators have much choice and responsibility in steering technologies, there is also much about a technology that is outside of our control. Particular technological processes will inherently favor particular outcomes. For instance
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