Writers Are More Powerful Than the Streaming Industry - In These Times
“If we turn this career into a gig, into a hobby, the people who are going to be able to do it are the people who have generational wealth and privilege and are just doing this for fun.”
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A Comprehensive Guide to the iTunes Affiliate Program - MacStories
Inexpensive software and other tools, coupled with ubiquitous Internet access, have made it easier than ever for creative people to reach a large audience. Whether you are a writer, a podcaster, a video producer, a software developer, or a maker of some other description, distribution has been reduced to a mere implementation detail. Yet, with
Escaping the Digital Media ‘Crap Trap’ — The Information
Digital media companies are caught in the "crap trap," mass-producing trashy clickbait so they can claim huge audiences and often higher valuations. Here is how they fell into this lethal trap: They got into the content game to produce news or info they might be proud of, believing they could ...
FOSS ACADEMIC | Reading the Minutes of the Social Web Working Group, part 2
NB: This is the second in a series of posts where I will share my notes on my readings of the minutes of the Social Web Working Group. The first one is here. Future posts to come. As I mentioned several months ago, my book about Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse can’t be complete without a deep understanding of ActivityPub, the protocol that powers the fediverse. ActivityPub itself is getting a bit of love in the press (see this Verge article for an example). And to understand ActivityPub, we have to look at the group that created it, the W3C’s Social Web Working Group, or SocialWG for short. They posted their meeting minutes on the Web and I have read all of them. In the previous post on the SocialWG minutes, I focused on the very early years, 2014 to 2015, finding that the period was dominated by organizational issues – how to meet, how to make decisions, and so on. In this section, I will cover the development of ActivityStreams 2.0, the first goal of the SocialWG charter.
MediaWiki's Visual Editor, and text editing on the web in general
Editing and formatting text on the web comprises of an
interesting sub-field of web development. The web allows
for different ways to turn text into HTML markup. First
I'll outline some of the background of interactive text
formatting on the web from my perspective, and then go
into some configuration details of MediaWiki's Visual
Editor that I found interesting.
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