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Who Owns the Digital You? (Part 2 of 3)
“Identity will be one of the defining themes in the next five years of the Web.” — Aza Raskin, Former Head of User Design Mozilla, now VP…
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“The battle that is underway is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It’s a battle over choice and informed consent.” — danah boyd
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“Blue Beetle” gets it: He is an online commenter who wrote this about advertiser-driven free sites:
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“If you aren’t paying for it, then you aren’t the customer any more, you are the product being sold.”
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He understands deeply what I was trying to express in my last post.
Tim Chambers
Oct 18, 2015
A great article on the history of the creation of the Apple Watch here.
I especially like this quote on it’s a reason for existence:
Our phones have become invasive. But what if you could engineer a reverse state of being? What if you could make a device that you wouldn’t — couldn’t — use for hours at a time? What if you could create a device that could filter out all the bullshit and instead only serve you truly important information? You could change modern life. And so after three-plus decades of building devices that grab and hold our attention — the longer the better — Apple has decided that the way forward is to fight…
Tim Chambers
Oct 18, 2015
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More AMP HTML Reactions and Links
Other reactions around Medium.com and elsewhere to Google’s AMP HTML project:
Tim Chambers
Oct 12, 2015
Who Owns the Digital You? (Part 1 of 3)
“Twenties and Thirties it was the role of government, Fifties and Sixties it was civil rights. The next two decades it’s gonna be privacy…
Tim Chambers
Oct 11, 2015
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project Live
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project Live
Google, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Wordpress.com, and 30 other content partners have unveiled the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project…
Tim Chambers
Oct 10, 2015
“Voter Guide That Follows the Money”
Cool: very worthwhile effort here:
Tim Chambers
Oct 10, 2015
New “Subatomic Unit” of News, Politics and Advocacy
This rings very true to me, but applying to all forms of news, policy and advocacy communications:
Tim Chambers
Oct 10, 2015
Internet, You aren’t Helping: How Bad Data Spreads Faster than Good
Fascinating tool that tracks how rumors and misinformation and unverified claims spread far faster than solid, well sourced data does…
Tim Chambers
Oct 10, 2015
Some great thoughts on how to surface more trustworthy news online…
Great thoughts here, by craignewmark, on some ways online platforms can encourage and reward trustworthy journalism.
Tim Chambers
Oct 10, 2015
The Next Stage in the Digital “Identity Wars.”
I’ve been following what is been called the “Identity Wars” for a long time. Here is a post of mine from a few years back on this exact…
Tim Chambers
Oct 10, 2015
NY Times Open Sources “The Hive” a Platform for Crowdsourcing News and Info
Looks pretty cool, and props to the NY Times for open sourcing this platform, called “The Hive.”
Tim Chambers
Oct 10, 2015
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