In the beginning we surfed the web but now a tsunami of crowd-sourced content threatens to overwhelm our craft. Should we plunge headlong into the waves and hope to remain bouyant in the social media storm or head for maven haven on the mountain top? The web is awash with water metaphors, from streaming video [...]
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Chris Messina on The Death of the URL
Chris Messina has published a passionate and beautifully-illustrated post about the tension between what Jonathan Zittrain describes as generative and tethered net applications, represented by Neo’s Cartesian dilemma. How insidious is the slide towards ease of use inside walled gardens such as Facebook and the iPhone? And how many users truly take the red pill [...]
Google Vader
A partisan but pretty polemic comparing the search giant’s apparently insatiable monopolistic drives to those of a well-known authoritarian despot. Hosted on whose servers for free?
Jaron Lanier On The Dangers Of Digital Collectivism
Jaron Lanier spoke at The RSA on 1 February 2010 to promote his new book You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto. This is essential reading for anyone involved with the online world. It takes a refreshingly honest look at the first generation of web applications and the way the web has evolved. Check out [...]
The Slippery Slope Of Facebook Personal Privacy
Matt McKeon has created an instructive graphic comparison of changes to Facebook’s default profile settings since 2005. The transition between relative and a more or less complete lack of privacy is easy to grasp in this form, and much easier to understand than the labyrinthine multi-page Facebook terms and conditions, or even the manual privacy [...]
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Martin Redfern filters out the hype around online social media to relay clear signals without all that distorting noise.
