from the if-it-dies,-it-dies dept
Depending on just how often you use Google News, you may have noticed that Google News was down recently. Down hard.
No, it wasn’t just you; G… Read More
If you had told us a year ago that the image that would go viral against the murder of children in Gaza would be a meme generated by artificial intelligence (AI), it would have seemed dyst… Read More
Know Your Meme: Google Search Enshittification. “Google Search Enshittification refers to the user experience and market situation of Google Search in the 2020s, an era that saw signif… Read More
Today’s links AI is a WMD: Advon is a force-multiplier for enshittification. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appeara… Read More
Today’s links The disenshittified internet starts with loyal “user agents”: A tool should work for its user, not its manufacturer. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate… Read More
In the modern economy, the concept of “enshittification” has gained traction as a means to understand the evolving dynamics of the platform economy. Coined by Cory Doctorow, it r… Read More
Prabhakar Raghavan, the head of Google Search, expects his team to move more quickly and in different directions as part of a new “cost” and “operating reality.”… Read More
Today’s links No, “convenience” isn’t the problem: Enshittification isn’t caused by “lazy consumers.” Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This… Read More
Mother Jones: Communicating With Elon Musk’s X Is Like Traversing a Scorched Hellscape. “Despite Elon Musk’s enshittification of Twitter, to borrow a term from the novelist… Read More
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Bluesky is a relatively new social media platform, and at first glance it looks a lot like Twitter. As laid out by Mike Masnick in a great article on Techdirt, Bluesky i… Read More
David Pierce with a report-style blog on comparing different search engines and how Google still mostly wins on speed.
David writes:
But the thing you have to understand about a sear… Read More
Today’s links Someday, we’ll all take comfort in the internet’s “dark corners”: The Sea of Enshittification is rising and your online home will eventually be fl… Read More
A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might want it to be. And yet, the people who work on such projects are expected to display the slavish devotion of passionate and commit… Read More
To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.Jason ParhamSquander enough time on TikTok these days an… Read More
Today’s links Brinkwhump Linkdump: A varied mixture for the weekend. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing p… Read More
Today’s links Middlemen without enshittification: Not every author can be a DIY author. The Bezzle excerpt (Part II): Let’s learn about copyright termination! Hey look at this: D… Read More
Auto Like Tik Tok Gratis – TikTok mengawali tahun 2023 dengan baik dengan fitur-fitur baru dan pembaruan untuk pengalaman pengguna yang lebih baik.
Tahun baru telah tiba dan TikTok tid… Read More
Sign upSign inSign upSign inIvan MonteiroFollowUX Collective--ListenShare“Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.”—Gary VaynerchukCompany culture is… Read More
Today’s links Pluralistic is four: Reflections on four years of Memex Method, Phase II. The Bezzle excerpt (Part III): In which Steve Soul lawyers up. Hey look at this: Delights to del… Read More
The Verge: Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content. “Reddit will let ‘an unnamed large AI company’ have access to its user-generated content platform in a ne… Read More
In an interview with The Register, author and activist Cory Doctorow offers potential solutions to stop "enshittification," an age-old phenomenon that has become endemic in the tech industry… Read More
Cada año hay personas que mueren ahogadas en las playas como consecuencia de un fenómeno marino denominado “corrientes de retorno”. Se trata de corrientes superfici… Read More
View towards the Hope Valley, Derbyshire - photograph by the authorLinks from one page to another are so fundamental to the web that without them it simply would not exist. HyperText —… Read More
Enshittification Amid a massive wave of tech company layoffs in favor of AI, Google is firing thousands of contractors tasked with making its namesake search engine work better. As Vice… Read More
Google Search is the most popular internet search engine in the world for many reasons.
From its age, founded in 1998, which has certainly given it a head start, to the way it uses complex… Read More
On March 15, 2010, Ibegan a brand new job at Google. The fourteen years since that day really feel like
a century.
The title of my announcement
was Now A No-Evil Zone and, OK… Read More
Today’s links Tech workers and gig workers need each other: Each disenshittifies the other. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 C… Read More
If I had written these lines a month ago, they would have been considered marketing predictions.
The reality is that I have never been excellent at predictions and trends, and 2023 has st… Read More
A day may come, as Aragorn might have said, when I finally get back to blogging about my artistic practice — the entire raison d’être of this blog — but it is not thi… Read More
To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.By Kate KnibbsThe internet sucks now. Once a playground fu… Read More
PLUS: Join the conversation! View in browser | Your newsletter preferences Not yet a subscriber? By Samantha Spengler | 12.02.23 Keeping Up With The Times The 2020s ha… Read More
Cory Doctorow called it “enshittification”. Are things getting worse?I tend to be an optimist. I think, generally, things are getting better. The Romans had a word for the idea t… Read More
PLUS: Join the conversation! View in browser | Your newsletter preferences Not yet a subscriber? By Samantha Spengler | 11.18.23 The Chronicles of Catfishing In 2005, Nora E… Read More
Today’s links The (open) web is good, actually: Recall has always been a power dynamic. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colop… Read More
Sed ut perspiciatis unde. The internet’s “enshittification,” as veteran journalist and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow describes it, began decades before TikTok made th… Read More
The internet's "enshittification," as veteran journalist and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow describes it, began decades before TikTok made the scene. Elder millennials remember the goo… Read More
When Netflix first unveiled its streaming video service in 2007, it felt like a miracle. Netflix's DVD customers in the US, who were paying between $5.99 to $17.99 a month, instantly had acc… Read More
Taxe sur les services numériques | Des revenus estimés à 7,2 milliards sur cinq ans pour Ottawa https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/techno/2023-10-17/taxe-sur-les-services… Read More
Dhole Moments is not a music blog. I will not pretend to be an expert on music, music theory, or music appreciation.
But it goes even further than that: I am so untalented at music that… Read More
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not-so-temporary classrooms
Learning in trailers,
an age-old tradition for
overcrowded schools.
the haunted bathroom
The toilet would flush
by itself, because… Read More
The Philips Hue ecosystem of home automation devices is "collapsing into stupidity," writes Rachel Kroll, veteran sysadmin and former production engineer at Facebook. "Unfortunately, the idi… Read More
It seems Twitter—the company now calling itself “X” based on one billionaire’s nostalgic whim—can’t escape users’ dissatisfaction with the platform… Read More
To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.Samantha CulpThe New Tech LexiconEverything’s Coming… Read More