it’s twitter’s frontpage vs everything that happens on it; the “walls” of any social site are plastered with profiles, virtual skins

“the egregore layer”, “memespace”, “social norms”, to name some

The whole sprawl is a music box, a mechanism performing an esoteric social symphony. Its gears will take you along and you won’t know it.

@kas@enotty.dk, @mian@miangraham.com twxt: The only social network where you’re welcomed personally.

China’s two child policy
This one is worth documenting, as it doesn’t happen every day. As a matter of fact, it hasn’t happened for over three decades.

“It is the latest twist in the most ambitious and ruthless social-engineering program ever undertaken by a modern state: Beijing announced Thursday that the Chinese Communist Party will officially abandon it … ⌘ Read more

Felix Schwenzel über IndieWeb und reclaim social media ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/1xo

The #indieweb as a minimum viable social web ecosystem Schöner Artikel von Ben Werd über das IndieWeb und Idno! ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/1W6

Non-Social
Almost over two years ago I left Facebook. A few months ago I left LinkedIn and Twitter. Two weeks ago I left Google+. I also left Groupon (I don’t even know why I ever sign up for that junk!). Next is to leave here. I guess this is my way to pursuit happiness.

As Mark weblog is gone1 —perhaps step 9 was, “ Get rid of the weblog“— I enumerate what he wrote:

1. Stop buying stuff you don’t need.
   
2. Pay off all … ⌘ Read more

A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/11V

Federating the Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/zM

OpenWeb-Notizen: Open Social, OExchange, Portable Contacts ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/wr

The Federated Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/ws

Heavy Microsoft ads on Freshmeat
Freshmeat is, in their own words, “the first stop for Linux users hunting for the software they need for work or play.” and it also “offers a variety of original content on technical, political, and social aspects of software and programming, written by both Freshmeat readers and Free Software luminaries.”

I have been very surprised to see, more and more, Microsoft ads on Freshmeat. All over the place. Quite often. Fre … ⌘ Read more

Craigslist founder will not sell

The founder of craigslist, the free social-networking and classifieds Web site, said on Thursday he is not interested in selling out, just hours after MySpace.com was valued at $15 billion.

“Who needs the money? We don’t really care,” Craig Newmark said in an interview at the Picnic ‘06 Cross Media Week conference in Amsterdam.

“If you’re living comfortably, what’s the point of having more?” Newmark said.

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