The Web We Have to Save: The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying. Why is nobody stopping it?
“(…) hyperlinks aren’t just the skeleton of the web: They are its eyes, a path to its soul. And a blind webpage, one without hyperlinks, can’t look or gaze at another webpage — and this has serious consequences for the dynamics of power on the web.”
“(…) for decades, the number of women in computer science was growing. But in 1984, something changed. The number of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged.”
When Women Stopped Coding.
Mountains of Prophets.
Predictions for Journalism 2016.
“Earlier this year, I taught an undergraduate class in the Journalism+Design program at The New School. The class was called Stealth Journalism.
Though I came up with the title, I’m the first to admit that it’s a little misleading — the ‘stealth’ is not undercover reporting, as much as presenting journalism in public spaces, for people who don’t expect it. Site-Specific Journalism might have been a better (less-enticing) class name.
In fact, it’s a class about Snapchat. Kind of.”
TIL: Originally an Atari employee, Carol Shaw is said to be the first female video game designer, for her unreleased Polo game in 1978 and 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe game in 1979. (Source: Atari – Game Over.)
Here she is in an interview with the magazine Vintage Computing and Gaming.
Better late than never.
Still excellent after all those years.
Girly Show: The Oral History of Liz Phair’s “Exile In Guyville”.
“If you have a choice between licking a cutting board or a toilet seat...”
451 Unavailable
Error 451 is a new error code that we want ISPs to show when people visit websites blocked for legal reasons.
Californian Democracy?