Reminds me of Vienna’s Danube channel.
Revealed: the insidious creep of pseudo-public space in London.
Pseudo-public space – squares and parks that seem public but are actually owned by corporations – has quietly spread across cities worldwide. As the Guardian maps its full extent in London for the first time, Jack Shenker reports on a new culture of secrecy and control, where private security guards can remove you for protesting, taking photos ... or just looking scruffy
Inside Cuba’s DIY Internet Revolution.
The real irony is that if the internet does topple the government and bring democracy to this democracy-starved island, it’ll happen just as democracy itself is being undone by Facebook and every other filter-bubble-creating, political-polarization-amplifying, algorithm-optimized feed. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves, and also oversimplifying, because the Cubans—the very resourceful Cubans—haven’t exactly been sitting around sipping mojitos as the digital revolución passed them by. They have workarounds. Oh, do they have workarounds.
An anagrammatical post.
“Born a refugee at the end of the last millennium, in a family scattered through three continents, five languages and three (or four) religions, Aladin Fenster aka @aladin first surfaced on Instagram in the very days following the birth of the social network.”
Petition to open source Flash spec.
Not sure about this. I maintain a virtual machine running WinXP and the Shockwave plugins for my ancient CD-Roms and Flash applets. Works pretty rad and did not need any care at all so far. But perhaps this solution does not work for everyone?
POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, a content publishing model that starts with posting content on your own domain first, then syndicating out copies to 3rd party services with permashortlinks back to the original on your site.
Now you can enjoy a social media feed that actually ends every day. No infinite scroll. No ads. Notifications once per day. Go back to living your life outside your screen.
Sustainability rocks, caretakers FTW.
Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance!
Steinski!
Health care is not a good.
20 Jahre ORF.at
Zeitreise mit der „blauen Seite“: orf.at
Vor genau 20 Jahren, am 24. Juli 1997, wurde ein Stück Mediengeschichte geschrieben: ORF.at ging online. Ein Blick in die vergangenen 20 Jahre zeigt die „blaue Seite“ auch als Spiegel rasanter Veränderungen in Sachen Medienkultur und Netzästhetik, von Revolutionen der Webnutzung und nicht zuletzt des Wandels im Journalismus. Schon der erste Blick birgt eine Überraschung. Denn bei aller Konstanz im Erscheinungsbild, für die ORF.at durchaus auch gescholten wurde: Am Anfang war ORF.at nicht blau.
