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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoFirst Word Art / Last Word Art, by Michael Naimark (May 2001)2024-01-21T01:16:40+00:00
http://www.naimark.net/writing/firstword.html
robertogrecomichaelnaimark 2001 art medium film filmmaking tools form davidross creativity inventionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2537d1991645/Opinion | This Is Your Brain on ‘Deep Reading.’ It’s Pretty Magnificent. - The New York Times2022-12-05T01:20:54+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-maryanne-wolf.html
robertogrecoreading 2022 howweread literacy ezraklein maryannewolf neuroscience books brain mashallmcluhan humans language hermannhesse naomibaron nicholascarr gishjen wendellberry johndunne georgeeliot middlemarch deepreading internet online text web socialmedia yiruma theoryofmind empathy information immersion criticalanalysis criticalthinking attention skimming informationoverall learning memory retention mind content experience process insight epiphany plasticity orthography medium walterong comprehension neilpostman digital print affordances awareness sampling method absorption immersiveness speed slow multitasking entertainment engagement feeling inference perspective deduction time efficiency understanding processing habits flexibility conditioning skills skill media mediums nature training exercise mindsets methods proust technology marcelproust purpose beauty complexity habitsofmind stateofmind statesofmind focus thinking wisdom offline meditation leisure reflection contemplation aristotle knowledge productivityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ac808fa3cded/Notes on Web32021-12-03T23:08:00+00:00
https://society.robinsloan.com/archive/notes-on-web3/
robertogrecoweb3 robinsloan 2021 ethereum blockchain crypto web online internet speculation deletion ephemerality ephemeral daos worldcoin bitcoin fintech finance nfts disruption mutability permanence ownership possession web2.0 dotcomboom dotcom cryptocurrency cryptocurrencies governance twitter medium discord money play 2019 2020 2000 sanfrancisco tech technology markets capitalism 1970s economicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5c4174dc665c/WWW: The Way We Were2020-07-28T01:58:39+00:00
https://kottke.org/16/10/www-the-way-we-were
robertogrecoJoe: Berners-Lee wrote HTML to view and edit the Web and HTTP so that it could talk to itself. The chatter could be cacophonous, it could be deafeningly silent. Big picture: What will the World Wide Web become? Short answer: Who knows?
Donna: Ok, so what’s your point?
Joe: It’s a waste of time to try to figure out what the Web will become, we just don’t know. Because right now, at the end of the day, it’s just an online research catalog running on NeXT computers on a small network in Europe.
Cam: So, you’re saying everything we’ve talked about since we got here has been a waste of time?
Joe: I’m saying let’s take a step back. Literally step back.
Gordon: What is this on the board?
Joe: It’s the code for the Web browser.
Tom: And you wrote it all on the whiteboard.
Donna: The online catalog of research?
Cameron: Full of Norwegian dudes’ physics papers and particle diagrams and stuff?
Gordon: And we care about this because why?
Joe: How did we all get here today? The choices we made? The sheer force of our wills, something like that? Here’s another answer: the winds of fate, random coincidence, some unseen hand pushing us along. Destiny. How did we all get here today? We walked through this door. We don’t have to build a big white box or stadium or invent rock n’ roll. The moment we decide what the Web is, we’ve lost. The moment we try to tell people what to do with it, we’ve lost. All we have to do is build a door and let them inside.
When I was five, my mother took me to the city. And we went through the Holland Tunnel and it was basic, concrete and steel, but it was also my excitement sitting in the backseat, wondering when it was going to be our turn to emerge, it was the explosion of sunlight. And when we exited the tunnel, all of Manhattan was laid out before us. And that was the best part of the trip: **the amazing possibility to be able to go anywhere within something that is magnificent and never-ending.**
This is the first Web browser, the one CERN built to view and edit research. I wrote it up here for you to see how simple it is. It takes up one whiteboard — that’s basic concrete and steel — but we can take this and we can build a door and we can be the first ones to do it because right now, everyone else sees this…
Donna: …as an online research catalog…
Gordon: …running on NeXT…
Cameron: …on a network in Europe.
Joe: And with this handful of code, we can build the Holland Tunnel.
It’s Don Draper’s carousel speech from Mad Men…but for the Web. And it hit me right in the feels. Hard. When I tell people about the first time I saw the Web, I would sheepishly describe it as love at first sight. Logging on that first time, using an early version of NCSA Mosaic with a network login borrowed from my physics advisor, was the only time in my life I have ever seen something so clearly, been sure of anything so completely. It was a like a thunderclap — “the amazing possibility to be able to go anywhere within something that is magnificent and never-ending” — and I just knew this was for me and that it was going to be huge and important. I know how ridiculous this sounds, but the Web is the true love of my life and ever since I’ve been trying to live inside the feeling I had when I first saw it.
Which is why this scene wrecked me so hard. The Web that they are talking about on the show, the open Web, is ailing, dying. It was like listening to a eulogy at a funeral, this thing that I love, poured the best of my self into, gone forever. Of course that’s not strictly true, the Web is still a fabulous place where anyone can set up a site to do, say, or sell whatever they want, but instead of the promise of small pieces loosely joined, what we mostly got was large pieces tightly coupled. Today’s Web browsers and apps are Holland Tunnels that open up right into shopping malls instead of open city streets. Facebook makes it absurdly easy to start your own blog that all your friends and family can conveniently read, but you give up the freedom to say anything you want, it’s impossible to move those words elsewhere if you’d like (I’m talking with URLs and social graph intact), and they sell advertising against your words & images and you don’t get a cut.
Now, I’m not advocating a Make The Web Great Again policy because the open Web of the 90s had many problems, the greatest of which was a lack of access for anyone without the free time and skills necessary to set up a web server, install software, etc. etc., not to mention the expense involved. Today’s Web is much more accessible to people of all ages, backgrounds, and skill levels and as a result you see much more participation across the socioeconomic spectrum, especially in developing countries.
But the open Web enthusiasts and advocates missed an opportunity to take what the Web was in the 90s and make that available to everyone. Instead of walled gardens like Facebook, Pinterest, and Medium (which echo the closed online services like AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve that predated the Web), imagine a bunch of smaller services bound together with open protocols where individuals have both freedom and convenience. At this stage, building an open Twitter or open Facebook is nearly impossible, but it wouldn’t have been 10-12 years ago. I hope I’m wrong, but with all of the entrenched incumbents and money pumping into online services, I’m afraid that time has truly passed. And it’s breaking my heart.”]]>haltandcatchfire www openweb 2016 online internet 1990s worldwideweb tv television walledgardens prodigy aol compuserve pinterest facebook medium timberners-lee kottke jasonkottke thewebwelosthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6196db9cb5a3/Zines are the future of media2017-12-23T21:12:37+00:00
https://kottke.org/17/12/zines-are-the-future-of-media
robertogrecotimcarmody kawandeepvirdee zines publishing blogs blogging digital publications 2017 2018 quarterlies classideas cv conformity medium media predictions design originality weirdness aesthetics freshness internet amandahess web online graphicdesign layout webdesign indie indieweb diversity anti-formalism relatability surprise variety craft pacing howwewrite howweread print papernethttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f49ffd0f41af/The Perfect Medium User — Medium2016-03-27T03:39:45+00:00
https://medium.com/@caseyg/the-perfect-medium-user-4d2082cc495#.fhexqb2go
robertogrecocaseygollan manifestos medium 2016 culture humor web online internethttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d7951383c8e7/Popular versus Brilliant | Designers + Geeks2016-02-21T23:38:19+00:00
http://www.designersandgeeks.com/events/popular-versus-brilliant
robertogrecojimbbull californiadesign siliconvalley 2016 branding reverence generic popularity brilliance apple uber medium california graphicdesign webdesign movingbrands productdesign sameness webrococo benetton olivierotoscani tiborkalman design business california-zation homogenization designeducation art differentiation ui ux screens magicleap ar augmentedreality virtualreality packaging vr webdevhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b2bc58181cd9/Anywhere but Medium2016-01-21T06:29:25+00:00
http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2016/01/20/0900.html
robertogrecomedium openweb davewiner 2016 blogging publishing writinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3e79e01490c4/The Website Obesity Crisis2016-01-01T00:42:07+00:00
http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
robertogrecopagebloat webdesign maciejceglowski 2015 webdev participatory openweb internet web online minecraft accessibility efficiency aesthetics cloud cloudcomputing amazonwebservices backend paypal google docker websites wired theverge medium javascript advertising ads acceleratedmobilepages mobile html facebook jeremykeith timkadlec internet.org facebookinstantarticles freebasics maciejcegłowski dostoyevsky dostoevskyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:88ffe4173762/Why I Believe in Text — Thoughts on Media — Medium2015-12-14T17:40:36+00:00
https://medium.com/thoughts-on-media/why-i-believe-in-text-bf2f823cca56#.t5ie2ucmo
robertogrecoText is the most flexible communication technology. Pictures may be worth a thousand words, when there’s a picture to match what you’re trying to say.
— Always Bet on Text [https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html ]
The future of text is going to be text+ (text + multimedia e.g. photos, videos, gifs, podcasts etc). In a mobile first world coupled with our shrinking attention span, readers and users want text+ for a faster, more immersive, gratifying consumption experience. Multimedia stories are the future of text. For rich storytelling to have the fast consumption of videos and it photos, it also needs to be interwoven with the depth and organization of text. It’s not going to be enough for Medium to be just text + photos. The Atatvist Mag does a great job embedding rich media into longform content. Now anyone can generate Pulitzer-winning content on par with “Snowfall”, which is powerful. The Atavist is democratizing high brow publishing to the masses. You don’t need programmers or photo editors anymore to produce high quality long form content. Publishing platforms like Facebook Notes, Medium, and the Atavist empower anyone to generate publisher-par content.
Text Conveys Emotional Depth
I question a world and system that overweighs “fast food consumption” over “slow food consumption”. Text is slow food because it takes longer to produce and consume. Like fast food, fast consumption fills you up fast but doesn’t do much for you. In a world where we measure user satisfaction and trust, we neglect the very basic metric for “connectedness” between users. NPS scores mean nothing if your users don’t feel connected to each other. I want to see companies adopt a metric for “connectedness” measuring how a reader feels towards the writer after reading a story. We should measure how you feel after reading a post. Did it make you feel more connected to the writer? Was the 1 minute you spent reading quality time? How does 1 minute of cat video trade off with 1 minute of reading?
Most importantly, text conveys a certain emotional depth that is not possible in photos and videos. People write during heightened states in their life like when Sheryl Sandberg wrote about losing her husband (I broke down reading her beautiful and poignant post) or when Mark Zuckerberg wrote about the miscarriages he and his wife Priscilla experienced before Max was born (very few people talked publicly about the pain of miscarriages until Mark’s text post). Writing helps us share our pain and heal together by connecting others to us through shared humanity. Through writing we find out that we are not as alone as we thought about our hardships. Writing is a conveyor of vulnerability and brings people together.
You can get to know someone through their writing. Writing makes me feel like I know someone like katie zhu before meeting her. From reading Katie’s Medium posts, I felt like I knew her and skipped the small talk when we met in person. We talked about everything from our shared love for writing to love-hate relationship with SF to internet ethics to cognitive diversity. We started on what would have been a fourth or fifth conversation level all thanks to me reading her writing. Writing connects people because it provides a deeper understanding of someone’s psyche, their beliefs, and their values. And that is a powerful thing in a world with so many disparate beliefs and divisiveness in political and religious factions. Writing has the ability to help you understand the other side’s opinion and dismount hidden biases.
Your product is only as good as the amalgamation of the people who use it. Content changes on the web but products that build deeper, meaningful connections between people will be lasting.
Let’s not get caught up in a “fast food consumption” world and forget that the internet can also be place for permanent, deep, and meaningful expressions. And this is why I believe in text. Text is not over yet, it’s just the beginning."]]>boren writing text web digital via:tealtan 2015 slow reading slowreading howweread howwewrite communication socialmedia atavist longform mediumform snowfall christinachae twitter theskimmm buzzfeed michaelsippy slate theawl text+ theoffing theatlantic alwaysbetontext sms texting snapchat connectedness emotions storytelling instagram medium facebook internet online photography video toddvanderwerff messaging chat multiliteracieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e0088b1da739/Pinboard on the Next Economy Conference (with tweets) · bnwlfsn · Storify2015-11-19T03:40:38+00:00
https://storify.com/bnwlfsn/maciej-on-the-next-economy-conference
robertogrecotomo'reilley 2015 gigeconomy economics precarity inequality technology taskrabbit uber transportation labor work future dystopia neeratanden zoebaird gender jobs byronauguste us society collectiveaction unions jesskutch michellemiller lizschuler afl-cio andystern seiu universalbasicincome walmart government politics policy siliconvalley venturecapital capitalism minimumwage salaries collectivebargaining publictransportation lyft davidrolf nickhanauer lauratyson palakshah etsy stewartbutterfield slack logangreen tipping publictransit transit chaddickerson brickhouse yahoo stephenlevy jitneys zeynepton benefitcorporations henryford quicktrip danteran managedbyq marketbasket convenience efficiency equity goodworkcode caregiving evwilliams medium nexteconomy kickstarter limorfried darpa ge farrionsjoquist facebook retail unionsquare intuit employment freelancing unemployement anne-marieslaughter reidhoffman kimberlybryant laszlobock google diversity microsoft davidplouffe poverty satyanadella maciejceglowski macihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f5e4159c555d/Journalism + Annotation = ❤️️ - FOLD2015-06-03T06:30:31+00:00
https://readfold.com/read/alexishope/journalism-annotation-3-GkLGdCJ2
robertogrecoannotation 2015 digital alexishope highlighting journalism commenting moderation coralproject johnunsworth dougschepers hypothes.is basseyetim andycarvin firstlookmedia amyhollyfield livefyre benjamingoering sidenotes footnotes hypertext briandonohue speedreading notes notetaking gregbarber trolls andrewlosowsky rapgenius chrisglazek medium stevenlevy responses danwhaley mirandamulligan sound data gistory genius.comhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:06ffef58d85d/A Teenager’s View on Social Media — Backchannel — Medium2015-01-08T21:57:11+00:00
https://medium.com/backchannel/a-teenagers-view-on-social-media-1df945c09ac6
robertogrecoteens youth socialmedia 2015 instagram facebook twitter snapchat yikyak tumblr groupme medium linkedin pinterest kik whatsapp andrewwatts messaging social danahboydhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:386fe61ec98f/Rev Dan Catt: Still Blogging2014-10-21T18:42:33+00:00
http://revdancatt.com/2014/10/18/still_blogging
robertogrecorevdancatt blogging blogs webdev tracking googleanalytics medium flickr tumblr content adomainofone'sown soundcloud ownership control vimeo youtube css images javascript 2014 webdesignhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ab004e4b4aa9/The Fall of Collaboration, The Rise of Cooperation2014-03-05T18:30:43+00:00
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/the-fall-of-collaboration-the-rise-of-cooperation-024015.php
robertogrecocollaboration cooperation hierarchies hierarchy horizontality open stoweboyd 2014 process tools ifttt dropbox flexibility autonomy yammer github medium asanahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e72e2e9f4cbb/Zappos is going holacratic: no job titles, no managers, no hierarchy - Quartz2013-12-30T19:58:19+00:00
http://qz.com/161210/zappos-is-going-holacratic-no-job-titles-no-managers-no-hierarchy/
robertogrecozappos hierarchy hierarchies management leadership organizations organization tonyhsieh aimeegroth 2013 horizontality holacracy autonomy mentorship power evanwilliams mediumhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a2711579e234/Review: Composition Tools Fargo, Medium, Editorially, Marquee, and More | MIT Technology Review2013-10-20T10:17:07+00:00
http://www.technologyreview.com/review/520246/as-we-may-type/
robertogrecowriting software cms design paulford quip ghost scrollkit marquee svbtle medium fargo 2013 onlinetoolkit collaborativewriting editoriallyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a624d9318a1f/A list of writing tools is a displacement activity - rodcorp2013-08-15T22:20:53+00:00
http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2013/08/a-list-of-writing-tools-is-a-displacement-activity.html
robertogrecowriting tools onlinetoolkit rodmclaren 2013 jawriter byword writeroom textmate nvalt pinboard draft poetica googledocs ulysses3 scrivener leanpub lacunabooks marked mou markdown googleapps googledrive medium wattpad howwework howwewrite webapps publishing formatting ebooks epub collaboration editing focusing focus feedback researching epublishing collaborativewriting digitalpublishing epubshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f6c9fc9aa97e/Why Medium Notes Are Different and How to Use Them Well — About Medium — Medium2013-04-26T16:48:00+00:00
https://medium.com/about/5972c72b18f2
robertogrecowriting commenting communities design annotation community medium context asides collaboration feedback 2013 via:tealtan notes evanwilliamshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:592a52cbeb63/notes on "when you see the future you want you buy it"2012-08-22T23:33:33+00:00
http://notes.torrez.org/2012/08/when-you-see-the-future-you-want-you-buy-it.html
robertogrecocomputer/computer->computer software requires a lot of good documentation and plain English examples. IFTTT managed it with a really clear site that still took a few months for people to fully grok*.
I think Human.io is a bit more Mechanical Turk than IFTTT. The thing that MT was missing was what Human.io provides: a very simple way to construct micro-apps to present elements that extract work from humans."]]>medium branch applications ios iphone tastylabs microapps micro-apps mechanicalturk ifttt andretorrez berg littleprinter 2012 human.iohttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4f318a9653c7/13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging/sharing/discovery platform from @ev and Obvious » Nieman Journalism Lab2012-08-18T00:40:10+00:00
http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/08/13-ways-of-looking-at-medium-the-new-bloggingsharingdiscovery-platform-from-ev-and-obvious/
robertogrecodanahboyd ownership contents design fftisa jeffreyzeldman svbtle app.net branch digg pyra petermerholz davewiner audience collections scalability gawker buzzfeed auteurtheory auteurs rearrangement jasonkottke johngruber deanallen joshmarshall ezraklein anildash jackdorsey evanwilliams louisck huffingtonpost theblaze talkingpointsmemo tpm politico internet publishing web online pinterest tumblr twitter odeo blogger joshuabenton obviouscorp 2012 authorship medium scalehttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e61d643f8272/You Can’t Start the Revolution from the Country Club. — I.M.H.O. — Medium2012-08-17T04:09:06+00:00
https://medium.com/p/65fb61abc815
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/welcome-to-the-new-internet-heres-what-it-looks
robertogrecodesign internet web advertising ads daringfireball spam aesthetics 2012 app.net branch instapaper svbtle medium johnherrmanhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fd1ff641e57c/The Pretty New Web and the Future of “Native” Advertising | The Awl2012-08-15T23:46:20+00:00
http://www.theawl.com/2012/08/the-pretty-new-web-and-the-future-of-native-advertising
robertogrecoreading instapaper dashboard daringfireball spam ads income money business content feeds pages stockandflow flow branch svbtle medium 2012 anildash choiresicha tumblr twitter nativeadvertisinghttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ec5c9736550/Flickr: Discussing Tagging it up ~ some suggestions for tagging your images. in FlickrCentral2012-07-18T22:27:13+00:00
http://www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss/2026/
robertogreconames naming subjects genre medium folksonomy tagography 2004 tags tips tagging flickrhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9711b52535bd/Ergodic literature - Wikipedia2012-07-02T03:06:59+00:00
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic_literature
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