Techcrunch: Ultimately, all of media is prioritization — every site, every newspaper, every broadcast has editors involved in determining what is the hierarchy of information to be presented to users. Somehow, RSS (at least in its current incarnation) never understood that. This is both a failure of the readers themselves, but also of the protocol, […]

The Next Web: Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are probably soon going to dictate what traffic can or cannot arrive at people’s end devices. GOOG-FB-AMZN traffic would be the most common, due to their popularity among internet users. Because of this market demand, ISPs will likely provide cheap plans with access to GOOG-FB-AMZN, while offering more expensive […]

Brad Frost: But lately I’ve noticed the platform feeling increasingly grabby, to the point where they’ve broken the fourth wall with me and now the whole experience is no longer enjoyable. They’ve gotten so brazen in their tactics to keep users engaged (ENGAGED!) I think it’s no longer possible to be a casual Facebook user. […]

Quelle volte in cui riesco a ignorare per giorni i social network, lo stream di notizie, twitter, blog, e a sparire brevemente da altri luoghi sociali della rete noto, come Kottke, che dell’assenza non frega nulla a nessuno: Not a single person noticed that I had stopped using social media. (Not enough to tell me anyway.) Perhaps if it had […]

La propone Dieter Bohn: Deve essere linkabile Deve permettere l’accesso a qualsiasi client Con enfasi sulla seconda: Links aren’t the complicated part; it’s the part where your thing should allow any client to access it. For the web, that rule is pretty clear: whether you use Chrome or Safari or Edge or Opera or whatever, […]

Anil Dash: As extraordinary as it seems now, there was a point when one could search most of the blogs in the world and get a reasonably complete and up-to-date set of results in return. Technorati was a pioneering service here, and started by actually attempting to crawl all of the blogs on the Internet […]

Il The Atlantic ha un lungo profilo su Ev Williams, il CEO di Medium (e prima di Twitter, e prima ancora di Blogger). Si parla di open web, e di quello che Williams sta facendo per salvarlo, anche se personalmente non sono del tutto persuaso dal suo discorso (di come e del perché Medium sarebbe […]

EFF: We need more Firefoxes. We need more browsers that treat their users, rather than publishers, as their customers. It’s the natural cycle of concentration-disruption-renewal that has kept the Web vibrant for nearly 20 years (eons, in web-years). We may never get another one, though. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), once the force for […]

Brent Simmons: My blog’s older than Twitter and Facebook, and it will outlive them. It has seen Flickr explode and then fade. It’s seen Google Wave and Google Reader come and go, and it’ll still be here as Google Plus fades. When Medium and Tumblr are gone, my blog will be here. The things that […]

Davide Piacenza ha raccontato la blogosfera italiana, come era anni fa, fra il 2002 e il 2008: In testa alla carovana degli avventurieri c’erano anche il già citato Mantellini, Andrea Beggi, Enrico Sola (allora soprattutto Suzukimaruti), Luca Sofri, Antonio Sofi, Leonardo Tondelli, Luca Conti, Mafe de Baggis, Gianluca Neri e autori che scrivevano sotto pseudonimi come Squonk,Livefast, Personalità Confusa. Tutte queste voci, che magari a qualcuno non diranno […]

Maciej Cegłowski: What Mao or Stalin could have done with the resources of the modern Internet? It’s a good question. If you look at the history of the KGB or Stasi, they consumed enormous resources just maintaining and cross-referencing their mountains of paperwork. Imagine what Stalin could have done with a decent MySQL server. We […]