Category: Indieweb
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Domain harvesting and the Twitter long game in retrospect
Tricking people into seeing unexpected content and converting some of them into customers is a tale as old as the web. It was the perfect model for the takeover.
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Of Books and Conferences Past
Of books and conferences past: A maker looks back on things well-made but no longer with us.
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Ah yes, the famous “intern did it” syndrome
Poachers, when caught stealing content from our website, always blamed the theft on an “intern” or “freelancer.” We always pretended to believe them.
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Akismet means never having to say you’re sorry
The bots who shit in your sandbox are bigger, brassier, and better than ever!
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In search of a digital town square
Ever since an infantile fascist billionaire (hereafter, the IFB) decided to turn Twitter over to the racially hostile anti-science set, folks who previously used that network daily to discuss and amplify topics they cared about…
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Fly, my designers, fly!
Designers can either become drivers of business within their organizations, or they can create the businesses they want to drive. We’re entering an era of design entrepreneurship, in which some designers are realizing that they’re…
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Algorithm & Blues
Examining last week’s Verge-vs-Sullivan “Google ruined the web” debate, author Elizabeth Tai writes: I don’t know any class of user more abused by SEO and Google search than the writer. Whether they’re working for their…