I was talking to a friend who was thinking about the internet we want to have, decentralized, less silos, a bit like the nineties where it was possible to have static pages, host email, write your own CGI scripts, and it was all step by step easy and possible if that was what you wanted. And we got talking about the kind of things we need to today to get this back. Do you have reading suggestions? Blogs to read? Projects? People to follow?
@kensanata Vaguely related, though from the other side: content and presentation, contemporary failures. In part:
"The attention economy is sacrificing information for attention: Far too many websites, blogs, aggregators, etc., don't seek to inform, but simply to gain and hold attention. We get multi-paginated articles, slideshows, lists, references to references to references. Stories whose main drive is to evoke emotion, often outrage, rather than inform...."
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/YHsxb5r9VoR
@kensanata Thanks, yeah. Pretty clear that I've been following a number of issues for a while. I've been combing through archives...
@dredmorbius So many true things in that post!