Disruptive Conversations

Today marks 25 years since the first edit to Wikipedia!

If you want to understand how we got to the Web that we have today, I would strongly recommend reading this beautiful piece by Mia Sato at The Verge on the theme of “Google shapes everything on the Web” It is an interactive piece that explains in both text

Visit “Aitana Lopez” on Instagram.

I find it fascinating that Meta just announced the ability of Facebook users to have multiple accounts attached to their single Facebook account.

As of today, May 1, 2023, 43% of web sites will no longer be able to easily auto-share posts to Twitter.

If you read nothing else this week, I encourage you to read Cory Doctorow’s latest … rant?

Back on December 1, 2022, I boldly said that I was going to attempt 100 consecutive days of blogging.

A tip for all the newcomers to Mastodon – if you are seeing a lot of posts in your timelines in languages that you don’t know, there is a very simple way you can filter those posts out.

In a sign of the growth of Mastodon in the midst of the continuing drama at Twitter, Techmeme, the news site I use the most to keep up on tech news, has started to highlight Mastodon posts in addition to the way the site highlights tweets.

It’s great to see nonprofit organizations getting into the business of operating public Mastodon / Fediverse instances.