Authoring
Social media and news site talkbacks have ushered in an age where everyone feels a need to comment, discuss, and venture their opinions. A few years ago, one had to be quite upset or sure of one’s authority to go … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: social-networking
Dave Winer: “You should use Facebook”
Dave Winer, the “proto-blogger” and creator of the RSS news feed system, says that he basically agrees with the criticism of Facebook by the New York Times and other news publishers, but he believes also that their bias is disingenuous, … Continue reading →
Facebook helped advertisers target teens who feel “worthless”
Facebook helped advertisers target teens who feel “worthless” https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/05/facebook-helped-advertisers-target-teens-who-feel-worthless/
Continue reading →daunted by disqus logins
I’m fairly careful with passwords – I use a password manager. But just occasionally something goes wrong or gets outdated. That happened now with Disqus. So I went through the attempt to make a new account, discovered I had an … Continue reading →
Abandon the entire social networking model?
I’m beginning to grow weary both of the commercial social networks and their alternatives. The web outside of them was always more expansive and interesting than that which is caught within them. Its content is more usefully captured directly than … Continue reading →
Why Ello won’t be the answer
The Guardian: “Ello is the ‘anti-facebook’, positioning itself as a network with a social conscience. It might not be the one to replace the social giant, but Facebook is getting old” Ello or another competing service won’t be the answer. … Continue reading →
My Private Social
GNU Social is a fairly mature federated Twitter-style network based on (and merged with) Status.Net – the free open source network devised by Evan Prodromou. Prodromou and his company E14N has gone on to create yet another network called Pump.io, … Continue reading →
Gnu Social
I had a pleasant discovery today: Gnu Social . It had been around for a couple of years, but it turns out that last summer, Evan Prodromou, the developer of Status.Net, “donated all of his work to the Free Software Foundation, … Continue reading →
Social network engine I’d like to see
Most existing social networks are built upon the model of a timeline. But if we come to a network to find out what our friends are up to, what we probably would like to see is what Y has been … Continue reading →
Social networks need their Outlook Express moment
What we are waiting for in social networks is not for some newer, better, more privacy-aware network to replace Facebook (whose account I recently deleted) but a successful desktop or web application that will transparently work with Facebook, Twitter, and … Continue reading →