LINK: “From USENET to Facebook: The second time as farce”
Facebook repeats the pattern of USENET, this time as farce. As a no-holds-barred Wild West sort of social network, USENET was filled with everything we rightly complain about today. Original:
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Tuesday, 17 April, 2018
LINK: “Blogging is most certainly not dead”
Social media is as compelling as ever, but people are increasingly souring on the surveillance state Skinner boxes like Facebook and Twitter. Decentralized media like blogs and newsletters are looking better and better these days… Original:
LINK: “OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong”
By the time OLPC officially launched in 2007, the “green machine” — once a breakout star of the 21st-century educational technology scene — was a symbol of tech industry hubris, a one-size-fits-all American solution to complex global problems. But more…
Six themes for a good local government digital strategy
I recently went through the rather painful process of applying for a senior digital transformation role in local government and not getting it. I might write in more detail at some point about it all, but right now I am…