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01:07:44 - Ten years ago, Big Tech reached a peak. Facebook had wormed its way into the lives of billions of people. The mainstream news covered iPhones releas…

00:30:13 - This week we brought Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic and co-founder of WordPress onto the show, along with Kishan Bagaria, the founder of Text…

Today, The Browser Company announced a selection of new features coming to their Arc browser for Mac as part of what they are billing ’Act II’ of their increasingly popular app. There are four features in total, centered around the theme of ‘the browser that browses for you.’ For those unfamiliar, Arc started as a

Long before Apple Vision Pro, there was QuickTime VR.

Many Black users who stayed amid the chaos and change on the platform, now named X, have found a renewed sense in what originally fascinated them: the mundanity in connection.

Guess I’ll join in the Duel of the Defaults 😄 I’ve held off since it seemed that most people were iOS users and I’m a Windows/Linux gal. But so many others have joined in and the list was fun to put together. 📧 Email Client: HEY 🕸️ Website: Micro.blog & Namecheap 📝✅ Notes + Todos: Tiddlywiki via Tiddlyhost.com 📸 Photo Management: Amazon Photos 🗓️ Calendar: Outlook 🎁 Cloud file storage: Onedrive 👽 Contacts: The standard Android app 🌐 Browser: Brave (desktop) & Kiwi (Android) 💬 Chat: The standard Android app 🔖 Bookmarks: Micro.

Updates on Bonfire, Threads adds quote posting, with implications for ActivityPub, and much more.

The Great Failure of Wikipedia: Presentation by Jason Scott at Notacon 3 in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday, April 8, 2006. Covers the universally-editable...

Today, Apple announced how it intends to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which the European Commission says applies to the App Store. There are a lot of details to cover, but in summary, radical change is coming to the EU App Store, but only in the EU. Let’s take a look at how

Apple announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store impacting developers’ apps in the EU to comply with the DMA.

Ahead of the DMA coming into force in March.

What I found in the mire

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In the late 1970s, a loose collective of New York bands created a radical reaction to New Wave and Punk that came to be known as No Wave. Led by Mars, DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, the Contortions, and, later, Sonic Youth [pictured above], No Wave tossed dynamite into rock's decaying castle and got out before the smoke cleared. In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, No Wave, Pitchfork staff writer Marc Masters details the origins of this brief but still-influential movement.

When Google Podcasts disappears on April 2nd, you can try one of these substitutes.

Today, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 17.3, the third major updates to the operating systems that launched in September and Federico reviewed on MacStories. iOS and iPadOS 17.3 bring only a couple of major new features, including one that was previously expected to be released in iOS and iPadOS 17.2 (but was then delayed), a welcome

Cars Won't Make You Happy - Gears and Gasoline -- I ran into this discussion on Reddit, when I was trying to figure out why my dream car...

The homescreen I described last time has stayed pretty relevant for a long time, but the most recent iOS update added some new features and so it has evolved. It's essentially all the same functionality and applications, just moved around a little...

Our DIIF-funded research on Fediverse governance and administration officially begins this month, so we’ve made an informal federated blo...

Forkeys offers more than just your basic timelines and posting capabilities.

Since Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter/X and subsequent changes to that platform, computational social science researchers may be considering shifting their research programs to Mastodon and the fediverse. This article sounds several notes of caution about such a shift. We explain key differences between the fediverse and X, ultimately arguing that research must be with the fediverse, not on it.

In our first episode, we talk about the relationship between publishers and audiences, and the search for alternatives in the wake of controversy.

Podcasting news. Updates to the WordPress plugin. Bluesky has over 3m accounts and the invite system will go away soon.

Proprietary social media networks need to be transformed into local and global digital commons.