Category: Projects
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The meeting of the Larrys
Today I was on Larry King Now (his Hulu/YouTube/RT program, similar to the old CNN “Larry King Live”). I was on a half-hour panel about blockchain with XYO’s Markus Levin and Eric Tippetts
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A plea for protocols
The antidote to the abuses of big tech is the very thing that gave birth to the Internet itself: decentralized, neutral technical protocols. The thought that inspires my work. Ever since I started
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EU copyright reform could threaten wiki encyclopedias
If we are to believe its critics, under the pending EU copyright reform legislation, the EU would implement a “link tax” across all of Europe. So if you link to a news article,
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Teaching reading — two suggestions
America’s literacy problems could be solved if parents, preschool teachers, and daycare workers did just two simple things. One is obvious. One is not. First, we should read a lot more to our
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Some thoughts, 15 years after Wikipedia’s launch
It’s been 15 years since I announced the opening of the new Wikipedia.com site, with a little message that said: http://www.wikipedia.com/ Humor me. Go there and add a little article. It will take all
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Infobitt’s Future, and Mine
I’ve just posted the following announcement to the big Infobitt mailing list. ======= Friends, I have some unfortunate news. While I don’t wish to give up on Infobitt, we have run out of
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I kept my “no social media during work” pledge just fine
As I wrote in my last blog post, I’m pledging to abandon social media networks when I am at work, except for narrowly defined work purposes. And I’m asking you to hold me to
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Important Stories Are Hard to Find (Part 2: 4 Reasons the World Needs Infobitt)
I’m sharing four different reasons why the world desperately needs Infobitt. The first was that we have a right to edit the news—that hard, front page news needs input from “we, the people.”