Did Blogs Ruin the Web
On Kottke.org, Tim Carmody asks: Did blogs ruin the web? Or did the web ruin blogs?
Michael Kenna's Magical Trees
The Guardian published a beautiful gallery of landscape photographer Michael Kenna’s magical trees From the lakes of Hokkaido to the forests of Abruzzo, the British photographer has scoured the world’s landscapes to capture their silent guardians. Recommended.
Google removes egg from salad emoji to make it inclusive to vegans, the internet reacts. Isn’t that great? 😉
I didn’t know this. Brilliant!! Marketing sauerkraut | Seth’s Blog
Forbes tested Amazon’s new facial recognition technology:
"So cheap, simple and speedy is Rekognition that it will likely transform the way we view our privacy online and in the ‘real world
The LEGO Movie 2 trailer is great. Hopefully the movie will be, too.
WWDC: “Bla bla bla”, “bla bla bla”, “favicons in Safari tabs…” Wait, what? Favicons? FAVICONS!! 🙃
Isn’t this great? I completely agree with Simon Kuestenmacher:
Artists who uplift the ugly corners of our cities are true urban heroes.
(Source: Reddit)
The Best Camera
The Online Photographer knows better: The best camera is the one you've used for work you find gratifying.
Trapped by the feed
Om Malik hits it on head: No matter where I go on the Internet, I feel like I am trapped in the “feed,” held down by algorithms that are like axes trying to make bespoke shirts out of silk. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, they are all about the lowest common denominator. There is no real personalized value we receive from providing our data, we are just data sources for the popularity contests.
Are their more bloggers who, like Jason Kottke, share their media diet?
Politico created a GDPR power matrix, plotting both regulators, politicians and companies along axes for their influence and preparedness.
Understanding Fortnite
While reading How Fortnite Captured Teens’ Hearts and Minds in the New Yorker, I feel like I almost understand the Fortnite hype. I must be getting old. 😉
Amazon, your favorite surveillance company
Amazon is now also officially in the surveillance business: The company has developed a powerful and dangerous new facial recognition system and is actively helping governments deploy it. Amazon calls the service “Rekognition. Marketing materials and documents obtained by ACLU affiliates in three states reveal a product that can be readily used to violate civil liberties and civil rights. Powered by artificial intelligence, Rekognition can identify, track, and analyze people in real time and recognize up to 100 people in a single image.
Just installed Dialog on my Android phone. And it looks really good, @mikedotfm! Recommended!
How the old internet disappeared...
Dan Nosowitz hits the nail on the head in I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore: And then, one day, I think in 2013, Twitter and Facebook were not really very fun anymore. And worse, the fun things they had supplanted were never coming back. Forums were depopulated; blogs were shut down. Twitter, one agent of their death, became completely worthless: a water-drop-torture feed of performative outrage, self-promotion, and discussion of Twitter itself.
This looks like a useful resource: How to Easily Remove Old Tweets and Facebook Posts
Om Malik in Facebook, Social Media and the Social Contract:
The way I think about the problem we have right now (with social media) is to think about the problem we had in the past with tobacco.
There are some great tips in @chartier’s Finer Tech Newsletter #43. I’m definitely going to use the rotate movies on your iPhone with iMovie tip!
We’re in the Uncanny Valley of Targeted Advertising. And the Electronic Frontier Foundation knows how we can get out of it.