Link-o-Rama: Desert of Social Media, a raccoon and snow, dissecting the LastPass communications
Long day, let’s hit the links. Great post from Cat Valente about the continual ruination of online social communities by corporations and malicious actors. (My words.) “Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media.” From Cat, “It’s the...
Space debris, normalcy bias, RSS as the foundation for social media
Too many tabs open in the browser today, even compared with my usual tab overload. Good piece on Ars about space debris. Pull quote by Moriba Jah, an astrodynamicist from the University of Texas at Austin, “I also predict that we will see a loss of human life by...
Amyl and the Sniffers, Fraidycat web follower, Mogwai
Let’s shake some of my browser tabs and see what falls out. Fraidycat web follower / feed reader RSS has been on the decline since Google snuffed Google Reader. Many sites, these days, don’t even support RSS. It’s a problem. One solution that might fit the bill for many...