Hey all. Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #353. This past week was spent mostly at my physical therapist, having some RICE, and a lot of pain in my right thigh, glutes, and leg in general. At some point, I had some sort of injury or trauma to the region and everything locked up. All of the…
Paul Ford on the fundamental question on the web…”why wasn’t I consulted?” “Why wasn’t I consulted,” which I abbreviate as WWIC, is the fundamental question of the web. It is the rule from which other rules are derived. Humans have a fundamental need to be consulted, engaged, to exercise their knowledge (and thus power), and…
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg published a manifesto about privacy that offered up a new direction for the company, one based on encrypted messaging & the interoperability of all of the messaging platforms within Facebook. A shift to move the company toward a future dominated not by public feeds but by private, encrypted messaging. Chris Cox, the Chief Product…
Breaking down the walls between the internet’s many social silos, Webmentions offer a new level of freedom for web interactions.
A post from Chris Aldrich all about webmentions and online communications. People can post about what they’re actively listening to (either on their personal websites or via podcast apps that could report the percentage of the episode listened to) and send “listen” Webmentions to pages for podcasts or other audio content. At some point, I’d…
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