Hey, @Annaleen & @onthemedia, in the context of the self-proclaimed King of Kowloon, the American West had its own version: Emperor Norton. Seems like nascent empires produce these guys. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_N…
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#EDU566dailyponderance1 When it comes to social media What can you do to help others develop greater integrity and stand up for their beliefs while curating a positive community?
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There are those of us who read a lot of mid 20th century writing who remember similar clueless handwringing over “the servant problem”, and they didn’t even have a pandemic to blame. Just shitty working conditions, exemptions from social insurance, and historically low pay.
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Publ: Development Blog: Publ v0.7.14 released publ.plaidweb.site/blog/116-Publ-…
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I'm at Det Lille Kaffekompaniet in Bergen, Hordaland swarmapp.com/c/fASP7Uxw2U1
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Are you desperate to make contact during eternal Caturday?
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Name this transit system. Bonus points if you can name the line. Hint: 6 car train.
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LIL Chicken Bacon Guac with Fries & 10 Barrel Raspberry Crush Sour Ale
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We got HTML5 ~10 years ago. It was a *huge* accomplishment and leap forward for the web.
And then…crickets. Progress on HTML nearly stalled. DOM APIs evolved, yes. JS & CSS: massive growth. Markup? <😕>
I really hope to see this turn around. Declarative WC specs would be epic.
Yes, we need declarative declarations. It was one of the things that sadly died along the way. We should bring it back when template parts are done.
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Hey @newseasons, did you miss us last month? Get rid of your union-busting lawyers.
twitter.com/nslu_pdx/statu…
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Interesting layout for a restaurant/bar that encourages communication among patrons, from Mehrabian's Silent Messages. This was published in the 80's, and I don't know if I've ever seen this in the wild.
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Is this really cheating tho? Great tips for your presentations!
How to cheat your way to the top-rated presentation at any marketing conference.
Because, if you're gonna spend hours making a deck, getting stressed, flying there & bac...
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Is this really cheating tho? Great tips for your presentations!
https://twitter.com/randfish/status/1544433406645112833
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"text": "Matt Ridley indicates in The Rational Optimist that markets for goods and services \u201cwork so well that it is hard to design them so they fail to deliver efficiency and innovation\u201d while assets markets are nearly doomed to failure and require close and careful regulation.\nIf we view the social media landscape from this perspective, an IndieWeb world in which people are purchasing services like the ability to move their domain name and URL permalinks from one web host to another; easy import/export of their data; and CMS (content management system) services/platforms/functionalities, represents the successful market mode for our personal data and online identities. Here competition for these sorts of services will not only improve the landscape, but generally increased competition will tend to drive the costs to consumers down. The internet landscape is developed and sophisticated enough and broadly based on shared standards that this mode of service market should easily be able to not only thrive, but innovate.\nAt the other end of the spectrum, if our data are viewed as assets in an asset market between Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, et al., it is easy to see that the market has already failed so miserably that one cannot even easily move ones\u2019 assets from one silo to another or really protect them in any meaningful way. Social media services don\u2019t compete to export or import data because the goal is to trap you and your data and attention there, otherwise they lose. The market corporate social media is really operating in is one for eyeballs and attention to sell advertising, so one will notice a very health, thriving, and innovating market for advertisers. Social media users will easily notice that there is absolutely no regulation in the service portion of the space at all. This only allows the system to continue failing to provide improved or even innovative service to people on their \u201cservice\u201d. The only real competition in the corporate silo social media space is for eyeballs and participation because the people and their attention are the real product.\nAs a result, new players whose goal is to improve the health of the social media space, like the recent entrant Cohost, are far better off creating a standards based service that allows users to register their own domain names and provide a content management service that has easy import and export of their data. This will play into the services market mode which improves outcomes for people. Aligning in any other competition mode that silos off these functions will force them into competition with the existing corporate social services and we already know where those roads lead.\nThose looking for ethical and healthy models of this sort of social media service might look at Manton Reece\u2018s Micro.blog platform which provides a wide variety of these sorts of data services including data export and taking your domain name with you. If you\u2019re unhappy with his service, then it\u2019s relatively easy to export your data and move it to another host using WordPress or some other CMS. On the flip side, if you\u2019re unhappy with your host and CMS, then it\u2019s also easy to move over to Micro.blog and continue along just as you had before. Best of all, Micro.blog is offering lots of the newest and most innovative web standards including webmention notifications which enable website-to-website conversations, micropub, and even portions of microsub not to mention some great customer service.\nI like to analogize the internet and social media to competition in the telecom/cellular phone space In America, you have a phone number (domain name) and can then have your choice of service provider (hosting), and a choice of telephone (CMS) for interacting with the network. Somehow instead of adopting a social media common carrier model, we have trapped ourselves inside of a model that doesn\u2019t provide the users any sort of real service or options. It\u2019s easy to imagine what it would be like to need your own AT&T account to talk to family on AT&T and a separate T-Mobile account to talk to your friends on T-Mobile because that\u2019s exactly what you\u2019re doing with social media despite the fact that you\u2019re all still using the same internet. Part of the draw was that services like Facebook appeared to be \u201cfree\u201d. It\u2019s only years later that we\u2019re seeing the all too real costs emerge.\nThis sort of competition and service provision also goes down to subsidiary layers of the ecosystem. New service providers don\u2019t necessarily need to take the soup to nuts approach that Micro.Blog does. Take for example the idea of writing interface and text editing. There are (paid) services like iA Writer, Ulysses, and Typora which people use to compose their writing. Many people use these specifically for writing blog posts. Companies can charge for these products because of their beauty, simplicity, and excellent user interfaces. Some of them either already do or ostensibly could support the micropub and IndieAuth web standards which allow their users the ability to log into their websites and directly post their saved content from these editors directly to their website. Sure there are also a dozen or so other free micropub clients that also allow this, but why not have and allow competition for beauty and ease of use? Let\u2019s say you like WordPress enough, but aren\u2019t a fan of the Gutenberg editor. Should you need to change to Drupal or some unfamiliar static site generator to exchange a better composing experience for a dramatically different and unfamiliar back end experience? No, you could simply change your editor client and continue on without missing a beat. Of course the opposite also applies\u2014WordPress could split out Gutenberg as a standalone (possibly paid) micropub client and users could then easily use it to post to Drupal, Micro.blog, or other CMSs that support the micropub spec, and many already do.\nSocial media should be a service to and for people all the way down to its core. The more companies there are that provide these sorts of services means more competition which will also tend to lure people away from silos where they\u2019re trapped for lack of options. Further, if your friends are on services that interoperate and can cross communicate with standards like Webmention from site to site, you no longer need to be on Facebook because \u201cthat\u2019s where your friends and family all are.\u201d The more competition there is for cleaner, nicer user interfaces and simple solutions, the less lock in effects will be felt from existing and predatory social services.\nI have no doubt that we can all get to a healthier place online, but it\u2019s going to take companies and startups like Cohost to make better choices in how they frame their business models. Co-ops and non-profits can help here too. I can easily see a co-op adding webmention to their Mastodon site to allow users to see and moderate their own interactions instead of forcing local or global timelines on their constituencies. Perhaps Garon didn\u2019t think Webmention was a fit for Mastodon, but this doesn\u2019t mean that others couldn\u2019t support it. I personally think that Darius Kazemi\u2018s Hometown fork of Mastodon which allows \u201clocal only\u201d posting a fabulous little innovation while still allowing interaction with a wider readership, including me who reads his content from there in a microsub enabled social reader. Perhaps someone forks Mastodon to use as a social feed reader, but builds in micropub so that instead of posting the reply to a Mastodon account, it\u2019s posted to one\u2019s IndieWeb capable website which sends a webmention notification to the original post? Opening up competition this way makes lots of new avenues for every day social tools. One might posit that it was this lack of diverse solutions and common standards in the early 2000s\u00a0 that allowed corporations like Facebook, Twitter, et al. to entirely consume the market and fragment our online identities this way.\nContinuing the same old siloing of our data and online connections is not the way forward. We\u2019ll see who stands by their ethics and morals by serving people\u2019s interests and not the advertising industry.\nPrimarily composed on July 03, 2022 at 02:36PM in support of and partially in response to A Silo Can Never Provide Digital Autonomy to its Users by Ariadne Conill.",
"html": "Matt Ridley indicates in <a href=\"https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14928967W/The_Rational_Optimist\"><em>The Rational Optimist</em></a> that markets for goods and services \u201cwork so well that it is hard to design them so they fail to deliver efficiency and innovation\u201d while assets markets are nearly doomed to failure and require close and careful regulation.\n<p>If we view the social media landscape from this perspective, an IndieWeb world in which people are purchasing services like the ability to move their domain name and URL permalinks from one web host to another; easy import/export of their data; and CMS (content management system) services/platforms/functionalities, represents the successful market mode for our personal data and online identities. Here competition for these sorts of services will not only improve the landscape, but generally increased competition will tend to drive the costs to consumers down. The internet landscape is developed and sophisticated enough and broadly based on shared standards that this mode of service market should easily be able to not only thrive, but innovate.</p>\n<p>At the other end of the spectrum, if our data are viewed as assets in an asset market between Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, et al., it is easy to see that the market has already failed so miserably that one cannot even easily move ones\u2019 assets from one silo to another or really protect them in any meaningful way. Social media services don\u2019t compete to export or import data because the goal is to trap you and your data and attention there, otherwise they lose. The market corporate social media is really operating in is one for eyeballs and attention to sell advertising, so one will notice a very health, thriving, and innovating market for advertisers. Social media users will easily notice that there is absolutely no regulation in the service portion of the space at all. This only allows the system to continue failing to provide improved or even innovative service to people on their \u201cservice\u201d. The only real competition in the corporate silo social media space is for eyeballs and participation because the people and their attention are the real product.</p>\n<p>As a result, new players whose goal is to improve the health of the social media space, like the recent entrant Cohost, are far better off creating a standards based service that allows users to register their own domain names and provide a content management service that has easy import and export of their data. This will play into the services market mode which improves outcomes for people. Aligning in any other competition mode that silos off these functions will force them into competition with the existing corporate social services and we already know where those roads lead.</p>\n<p>Those looking for ethical and healthy models of this sort of social media service might look at <a class=\"u-in-reply-to\" href=\"https://www.manton.org/\">Manton Reece</a>\u2018s <a href=\"https://micro.blog/\">Micro.blog platform</a> which provides a wide variety of these sorts of data services including data export and taking your domain name with you. If you\u2019re unhappy with his service, then it\u2019s relatively easy to export your data and move it to another host using WordPress or some other CMS. On the flip side, if you\u2019re unhappy with your host and CMS, then it\u2019s also easy to move over to Micro.blog and continue along just as you had before. Best of all, Micro.blog is offering lots of the newest and most innovative web standards including webmention notifications which enable website-to-website conversations, micropub, and even portions of microsub not to mention some great customer service.</p>\n<p>I like to analogize the internet and social media to competition in the telecom/cellular phone space In America, you have a phone number (domain name) and can then have your choice of service provider (hosting), and a choice of telephone (CMS) for interacting with the network. Somehow instead of adopting a social media common carrier model, we have trapped ourselves inside of a model that doesn\u2019t provide the users any sort of real service or options. It\u2019s easy to imagine what it would be like to need your own AT&T account to talk to family on AT&T and a separate T-Mobile account to talk to your friends on T-Mobile because that\u2019s exactly what you\u2019re doing with social media despite the fact that you\u2019re all still using the same internet. Part of the draw was that services like Facebook appeared to be \u201cfree\u201d. It\u2019s only years later that we\u2019re seeing the all too real costs emerge.</p>\n<p>This sort of competition and service provision also goes down to subsidiary layers of the ecosystem. New service providers don\u2019t necessarily need to take the soup to nuts approach that Micro.Blog does. Take for example the idea of writing interface and text editing. There are (paid) services like iA Writer, Ulysses, and Typora which people use to compose their writing. Many people use these specifically for writing blog posts. Companies can charge for these products because of their beauty, simplicity, and excellent user interfaces. Some of them either already do or ostensibly could support the micropub and IndieAuth web standards which allow their users the ability to log into their websites and directly post their saved content from these editors directly to their website. Sure there are also a dozen or so other free <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Micropub/Clients\">micropub clients</a> that also allow this, but why not have and allow competition for beauty and ease of use? Let\u2019s say you like WordPress enough, but aren\u2019t a fan of the Gutenberg editor. Should you need to change to Drupal or some unfamiliar static site generator to exchange a better composing experience for a dramatically different and unfamiliar back end experience? No, you could simply change your editor client and continue on without missing a beat. Of course the opposite also applies\u2014WordPress could split out Gutenberg as a standalone (possibly paid) micropub client and users could then easily use it to post to Drupal, Micro.blog, or other CMSs that support the micropub spec, and many already do.</p>\n<p>Social media should be a service to and for people all the way down to its core. The more companies there are that provide these sorts of services means more competition which will also tend to lure people away from silos where they\u2019re trapped for lack of options. Further, if your friends are on services that interoperate and can cross communicate with standards like Webmention from site to site, you no longer need to be on Facebook because \u201cthat\u2019s where your friends and family all are.\u201d The more competition there is for cleaner, nicer user interfaces and simple solutions, the less lock in effects will be felt from existing and predatory social services.</p>\n<p>I have no doubt that we can all get to a healthier place online, but it\u2019s going to take companies and startups like Cohost to make better choices in how they frame their business models. Co-ops and non-profits can help here too. I can easily see a co-op adding webmention to their Mastodon site to allow users to see and moderate their own interactions instead of forcing local or global timelines on their constituencies. Perhaps Garon didn\u2019t think Webmention was a fit for Mastodon, but this doesn\u2019t mean that others couldn\u2019t support it. I personally think that <a class=\"u-in-reply-to\" href=\"http://tinysubversions.com/\">Darius Kazemi</a>\u2018s Hometown fork of Mastodon which allows \u201clocal only\u201d posting a fabulous little innovation while still allowing interaction with a wider readership, including me who reads his content from there in a microsub enabled social reader. Perhaps someone forks Mastodon to use as a social feed reader, but builds in micropub so that instead of posting the reply to a Mastodon account, it\u2019s posted to one\u2019s IndieWeb capable website which sends a webmention notification to the original post? Opening up competition this way makes lots of new avenues for every day social tools. One might posit that it was this lack of diverse solutions and common standards in the early 2000s\u00a0 that allowed corporations like Facebook, Twitter, et al. to entirely consume the market and fragment our online identities this way.</p>\n<p>Continuing the same old siloing of our data and online connections is not the way forward. We\u2019ll see who stands by their ethics and morals by serving people\u2019s interests and not the advertising industry.</p>\n<p>Primarily composed on July 03, 2022 at 02:36PM in support of and partially in response to <em><a class=\"u-in-reply-to\" href=\"https://ariadne.space/2022/07/01/a-silo-can-never-provide-digital-autonomy-to-its-users/\">A Silo Can Never Provide Digital Autonomy to its Users</a> </em>by Ariadne Conill.</p>"
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Hey, that's Sir Bugsington FitzBunniam the VI right there!
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Economic Models in Social Media and a Better Way Forward
A few thoughts on how social media startups like @cohost_org can dramatically change our social media experiences.
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Hard to believe that @Google shipped Filter Views in Sheets and didn't check to see if the SUBTOTAL function worked. But, believe it.
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