(…) Algorithms that maximize attention give an advantage to negative messages. People tend to react more to inputs that land low on the brainstem. Fear and anger produce a lot more engagement and sharing than joy. The result is that the algorithms favor sensational content over substance. Of course, this has always been true for…
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Wired: Facebook bug could have let advertisers get your phone number
Facebook tells users that giving the company their mobile phone number will help keep their account secure. Until a few weeks ago, however, the social network’s self-service ad-targeting tools could be massaged into revealing a Facebook user’s cellphone number from their email address. The same flaw made it possible to collect phone numbers for Facebook…
Blue Beanie Day
Once again it is time to show some love for Web Standards. Ten years ago, the "Blue Beanie Day" was invented, and if you are wondering how on earth wearing a blue knitted hat helps the Web Standard movement, well, Is this silly or serious? Seems to me, it’s a bit of both. If enough…
The Web began dying in 2014, here's how - André Staltz
It looks like nothing changed since 2014, but GOOG and FB now have direct influence over 70%+ of internet traffic. (…) GOOG’s goal is to gather as much rich data as possible, and build AI. Their mission is to have an AI provide timely and personalized information to us, not specifically to have websites provide…
Fuck Facebook - Daring Fireball
Treat Facebook as the private walled garden that it is. If you want something to be publicly accessible, post it to a real blog on any platform that embraces the real web, the open one. daringfireball.net
CSS Grid Support - Edge now has it, too
Yes! I cannot think of another new spec that has landed in all major browsers in under one year. Over at A List Apart is a very interesting article on the history of the CSS Grid and by whom and how it was made possible. On October 17th, Microsoft’s Edge browser shipped its implementation of…
Want readers to start trusting you again? Stop stalking them across the internet - poynter.org
(…) trust must also involve thinking thoughtfully about the platforms and tools we use to track readers, measure behavior and determine how to monetize. It must involve thinking about the data we collect — or let others collect — and then what could be done with that data. In other words, trust is something that…
Where Does The Design Agency Go From Here? - Paul Woods/Edo van Dijk
(…) Design is no longer just about design. Design doesn’t mean making visual solutions. Digital doesn’t mean being a web monkey, producing only websites and apps. Such developments as the rise of artificial intelligence, screenless design and accessibility to great website-building tools like Squarespace mean that the agency that interprets digital design as “making websites…
12 Years Blogrocking the Web
Happy Birthday, dear blog: your first post was published in August, 24th 2005. That's like one hundred internet-years, and so you are about two years older than the twitter 'hashtag' (#) invention. And you are still my favorite place to try out new technologies, to rant about the oddities of my daily adventures and recently…
The web as a material
The concepts of apprenticeship and mastership seem to not apply on the Web. When it comes to building a house, you will search for a trusted architect and carpenter, and you'll measure their credibility by means of their experience, which in turn will be a matter of the time they spent exercising their craft. On…
Intolerable - Jeremy Keith
Spot-on about that ex-googler's "manifesto" and its layers of reasonability around an intolerable core. (…) It may seem odd that a document that appears to be so reasonable is proving to be so very divisive. But it’s that very appearance of impartiality that gives it its power. It is like an optical illusion for the…