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13 votes
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How to design for the modern web
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How does the internet work?
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There should be ‘consequences’ for platforms that don’t remove people like Alex Jones, US Senator Ron Wyden says
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An ISP based in Texas has complained to a judge that the music industry to trying to turn internet providers into the "copyright police."
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Deplatforming works
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Rising sea levels could knock out the Internet in 15 years
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Can society scale? If you want to understand how group dynamics work online, look no further than Numtot.
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The internet trolls have won. Sorry, there’s not much you can do
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How the shared family computer protected us from our worst selves
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Censorship 2.0: Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
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El Paquete, Cuba's answer to digital content distribution
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A generation grows up in China without Facebook, Google, or Twitter
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Internet publication of 3D printing files about guns: Facts and what's at stake
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Just an observation, Google Search is ready for replacement.
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for...
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for "runners wearing green hats -shamrock -st. -patrick" Guess how many runners wearing green hats you get?
So search is hard? I think it's more likely that Google and everyone else is more interested in selling you a hat than helping you find a picture of a runner in a green hat.
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On the engineer's responsibility in protecting privacy (Paul Baran, RAND, 1968)
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Truth, disrupted
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Reddit reinvents the chat room with subreddit chat
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On the future computer era modification of the American character and the role of the engineer, or, a little caution in the haste to number (1968)
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Despite Chrome’s pending “mark of shame,” three major news sites aren’t HTTPS
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What if people were paid for their data?
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'Data is a fingerprint': why you aren't as anonymous as you think online - So-called ‘anonymous’ data can be easily used to identify everything from our medical records to purchase histories
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How the Blog Broke the Web
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Intellectual dark web psyop [part 1]
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Law of new new media platforms
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Wikipedia blacked out across Europe in protest against laws that could change the internet forever
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Comcast starts throttling mobile video, will charge extra for HD streams and full-speed tethering
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Solid: From Tim Berners-Lee, a project to decentralize the web
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Plant your flag, mark your territory - "If you don’t plant your flag online, fraudsters and identity thieves may do it for you"
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The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown
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How community management and policing internet trolls became women's work
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Wikipedia makes the case for Google and Facebook to give back to the Commons, rather than just take
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Algeria shuts down the internet for two hours to prevent leaks and cheating on exams
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Activism and doxing: Stephen Miller, ICE and how internet platforms have no good options
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California's Net Neutrality bill has been gutted
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EU committee approves new rules that could "destroy the internet as we know it."
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Cory Doctorow: "The EU is about to end everything that's good and pure about the internet"
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Alternatives to Google as a Search Engine?
Looking for something along the lines of DuckDuckGo and other privacy focused search engines. Any Tildoes have a go-to, non-censored, privacy focused search engine?
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The EU's Copyright Directive, Article 13
Next week the EU parliament will vote for their new copyright directive. In general it contains some good ideas, but also some extremely bad ones, such as article 13. It will require all uploaded...
Next week the EU parliament will vote for their new copyright directive. In general it contains some good ideas, but also some extremely bad ones, such as article 13. It will require all uploaded content to be scanned, and deleted if it might contain references to other copyrighted material.
The issue here is the word might. Due to the possible fines for companies that accidentally leave up something that contains a copyrighted work, they are incentivized to act more harsh than often necessary. It's safer for them to delete everything that looks like it might infringe copyright than risk the fine.
This could be disastrous for the Internet as we know it. And this is why many movements are speaking out against it. One such example would be the open letter to EU parliament. More information is available on https://saveyourinternet.eu/resources/, and you can find much more about it all over the Internet if you search with your favourite search engine.
What's your opinion on article 13, and have you done anything to make your voice heard?
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Deal to be inked for Solomon Islands undersea internet cable Australia stopped China building
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Digital IDs needed to end 'mob rule' online, says security minister Ben Wallace
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Meet the people who still use Myspace: 'It's given me so much joy'
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The EU could be about to ban memes and 'destroy the internet'
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Court Allows “Battery by GIF” Claim to Proceed–Eichenwald v. Rivello
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Private Internet Access’ “no-logging” claims proven true again in court
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On the rise and fall of Delicious, the online bookmarking service
Online/digital bookmarking and excerpting is something that really interests me because I think most if not all existing options for it fall very short of the functionality I wish existed, and...
Online/digital bookmarking and excerpting is something that really interests me because I think most if not all existing options for it fall very short of the functionality I wish existed, and that I think could exist.
One of the first online bookmarking services I used was Delicious, and for a few years it was irreplaceable for me. However it languished after it was bought by Yahoo and then resold, and since then I’ve observed its slow and steady decline from afar.
The purpose of this post is twofold:
- I want to know the current state of online bookmarking for you. I’m curious to know if it’s as much of an unmet need in anyone else’s life as it seems to be in mine.
- Were you once a bookmarker and gave up due to the seeming futility of it?
- Have you never been interested in bookmarking and/or don’t see the point of it?
- Are you an active bookmarker, and if so what tools or workflows do you use, and what kinds of content do you bookmark?
- I thought I would share some of the research I did into Delicious’ various design iterations over the years via the Internet Archive. It’s a cool birds-eye survey of how the service’s ethos, goals and design changed over time. Beyond the value it provides as a case study, I think there are greater lessons and insights that can be gained from observing the rise and fall of what was once such a beloved online service.
- del.icio.us | 16 September 2005
- del.icio.us | 20 December 2005
- del.icio.us | 11 October 2006
- Delicious.com | 11 May 2011
- Delicious.com | 27 November 2011
- Delicious.com | 12 May 2012
- Delicious.com | 30 August 2012
- Delicious.com | 14 October 2013
- The period between 2013 and 2016 seems to be one endless loading screen from the archive’s perspective
- Delicious.com | 15 March 2016
- At some point in 2016, they went back to their original domain name – del.icio.us | 14 May 2016
As a sidenote, I also found this explanation of Delicious' approach to tagging to be very interesting: del.icio.us/help/tags | 21 February 2006
I hadn't realized that Delicious was actually the first to introduce the concept of user-controlled tags for bookmarks:
When Delicious was first launched, it was the first use of the term "tag" in the modern sense, and it was the first explicit opportunity where website users were given the ability to add their own tags to their bookmarks so that they could more easily search for them at a later time. This major breakthrough was not much noticed as most thought the application at the time "cool" but obvious. – Source
Edit: I hope it's alright to edit a post this many hours after having submitted it. There were a few important updates that I really wanted to include here.
18 votes - I want to know the current state of online bookmarking for you. I’m curious to know if it’s as much of an unmet need in anyone else’s life as it seems to be in mine.
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Internet censorship around the world
Greeting everyone! I think this is the best category to ask that kind of question. I am looking for website/blog/author which provides information regarding new restriction on the internet. For...
Greeting everyone!
I think this is the best category to ask that kind of question. I am looking for website/blog/author which provides information regarding new restriction on the internet. For example in China, Iran, Russia and etc...
Any good sources to get fresh information (In English).
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How the alt-right manipulates the internet’s biggest commenting platform (Disqus)
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A sobering look at fake online reviews
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SpaceX is achieving high bandwidth, 25ms latency with Starlink test satellites
@elonmusk: @nitantbhartia @ninoles @medickinson @thephysicsgirl Pretty good. TinTin A & B are both closing the link to ground w phased array at high bandwidth, low latency (25 ms). Good enough to play fast response video games.
31 votes