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17 links, first saved January 8, 2011, latest January 5, 2023.
- Why Not Mars (Idle Words)
- Protests and Power (Idle Words)
Maciej ? was in Hong Kong for the recent protests and he reflects that experience with the current American protests. Instead of approaching the upcoming election as the…
- Let's All Wear A Mask (Idle Words)
A great overview on why masks should be worn and a call to action to make it socially normalized. But that is thinking about it backwards. The point of wearing a mask in public is…
- The New Wilderness (Idle Words)
I like how Maciej Cegłowski frames the privacy topic (and a number of other topics for that matter). I've wished that the Internet had a form of "zoning" in this regard. In…
- Idle Words - Talks - Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy (Senate hearing)
Very well stated position on privacy from Pinboard's Maciej Cegłowski about privacy. I particularly like the enumerated goals for privacy legislation. The final, and paramount…
- Legends of the Ancient Web
Recent talk by Maciej Cegłowski talking about the history of radio and how that was used as a tool of mass influence. Adds some perspective to todays debates about the web and…
- Anatomy of a Moral Panic
So much truth in this article. I spent years in media and the incentives and revenue systems that have evolved there are not good for the mission of news organizations. And…
- Deep-Fried Data
I run a small web archive for about twenty thousand people. Being invited to speak at the Library of Congress is like being a kid who glues paper fins to a cardboard tube and then…
- Remarks at the SASE Panel On The Moral Economy of Tech
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- The Website Obesity Crisis
Remember when Google Maps, the most sophisticated web app of its day, was thirty-five times smaller than a modern news article?
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- Haunted By Data
Idle Words > Talks > Haunted By Data This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 1, 2015, at the Strata Hadoop World conference in New York City. The video version is…
- What Happens Next Will Amaze You
As technical people, technical solutions will always come first. They're appealing because we can implement them ourselves, without having to convince a vendor, judge, lawmaker,…
- Fan Is A Tool-Using Animal—dConstruct Conference Talk
- Web Design - The First 100 Years
- The Internet With A Human Face - Beyond Tellerrand 2014 Conference Talk
- The Great Legacy.com Swindle