Category: Social Media
Once someone puts their mark on it, they own it
This has been churning in my brain for quite a while now. Inspired by the post You Can’t Join Mastodon by Brook Miles I finally stopped the churn and wrote it out as best I could. Fleischhauer, C. (1981) Branding Irons. , 1981. May. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of…
Social Media’s Drama Addiction
We’ve been conditioned to think of social media as a stage where we play out and exaggerate conflicts for the financial benefit of the owners. We must kick this habit to survive.
Make the Web Art Again
With Twitter melting down, Facebook contracting, and even Amazon laying off 10,000 it’s time to reevaluate what we’ve let the web become. This isn’t how it was supposed to be, and we have the ability to reclaim our creativity and our identities from those who commoditize them.
15 years as a dog
The New Yorker cartoon is a classic, familiar to most people who’ve ever felt themselves not just a user of the web but truly part of an internet community made up of technologists, creators, and power users. A community whose living history goes back to a time before social media, before Gmail, before the Dancing Baby, before the World Wide Web itself.
But maybe it was really only in the last 15 years when we were all pretending not to be dogs on the internet.