How Medium Works.

April Fool’s Aftermath.

My personal favorite: Drop bears are less likely to attack people with Australian accents, according to experts at the University of Tasmania.

Becoming A Pop Star With Zero Experience: How To Hack The Music Industry In Under 8 Weeks.

Remember the saying “hyperlinks subvert hierarchies”?

If the web still is about getting rid of the middleman then perhaps Facebook et al. should be quite scared.

If not, then perhaps we should be.

Gosh, I also totally overslept the evolution of the wiki-wiki concept: the original Portland Pattern Repository was then but the Smallest Federated Wiki is now.

Yesterday I linked to unhosted.org and from there, suddenly a whole new world opened up for me. Dozens of further links providing wonderful insights and a huge reminder of what the web actually means to me:

freedomboxfoundation.org, remotestorage.io, 5apps.com, appcloudy.com, pouchdb.com, lawnchair, webfinger, owncloud.org, tahoe-lafs.org.

No doubt, here is some movement going on (although the unhosted manifesto is already more than two years old) to do something about the issue of shoving our beloved data into the greedy mouths of those corporate content silos – a term I think I first read at scripting.com.

Not by chance also Dave Winer just recently affirmed that he is “on the Web Team”.

Sure is: I want to be on the Web Team, too. Question is, though: am I?

Garfield was originally created by Davis with the intention to come up with a “good, marketable character”. (Via slate.com)

Unhosted Web Apps. Freedom from Web 2.0’s monopoly platforms.

John Bauer: Týr and Fenrir. (Via en.wikipedia.org)

Game of Drones: The Blue Brothers.