An online notebook
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: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oreilly/radar/atom/~3/AwGHYMGH7dg/from-usenet-to-facebook-the-second-time-as-farce
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: https://kottke.org/18/04/blogging-is-most-certainly-not-dead
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 than a decade later, the project’s legacy is more complicated than a simple cautionary tale. … Keep reading
Digital – as a word – is broken. We have slapped it onto the front of two many old world applications in an attempt to normalise and ‘make safe’ new concepts that at this point saying something is digital is a bit like saying water is wet Original: http://www.curiouscatherine.info/2018/04/15/broken-words-and-why-they-matter/
… we want there to be Local Digital Skills Partnerships all over the country. Original: http://helenmilner.com/2018/04/13/localdigitalskills-making-digital-inclusion-happen-together/