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Now that "Pocket" is shutting down, do you have another "Read It Later" platform / solution you are using?

https://getpocket.com/farewell

I've started using Pinboard for social bookmarks… not exactly the same, but this could be my alternative?

https://pinboard.in/u:wfryer

as I am on a #WebRing quest, I came across a couple of #articles for later:

* https://www.mic.com/impact/how-geocities-webrings-made-the-90s-internet-a-cozier-place-19638198

* https://www.salon.com/2001/12/05/webring/

I had the misfortune of needing to look at a #Twitter user profile and what I received instead just perfectly embodies the #web2 experience.

Remember the newspaper #facebook was trying to disappear? They posted an update:

A day after a Facebook spokesman apologized for blocking Kansas Reflector articles by mistake, the social media giant blocked all links to two other news sites that republished a Kansas Reflector column.

These days I find #openaccess academic research that uses #ML is mostly all show, no tell. Few spill the beans on the full workflow (pre-processing, model and model weights). You get fancy maps, poor uncertainty characteristics and no way to reproduce results (even worse when drivers are hidden behind "platforms").

If #web2 has taught us anything it is that platforms are another way of gatekeeping, which is perceived to be sharing but mostly benefits the platform itself. Thusfar, #openscience.

Revisiting LibraryThing this holiday I found three of me there: identities from 2005, 2008, and 2018. Interestingly there's little overlap among my three libraries.

Now I'm exploring libraries from friends and acquaintances whose book choices from those eras are preserved as if in amber. The recommendations are timeless.

The site has held up nicely too. No need to jump on the React bandwagon, though a sprinkling of HTMX might be appropriate!

I’m sorry, but all that cryptocurrency/pseudo-DeFi shit didn’t sustain long enough to deserve the title #Web3. It is all drowning slowly in a pit of its own bullshit.

IMHO, what will be seen historically as the 3rd major trend in how the web operates is the ongoing retreat from broad openness. Once upon a time, the Web used HTML and the dominant coding style emphasized readability by humans. After the corporatization & consolidation of #web2 that had to be ‘fixed’ and we are seeing it now.

https://doi.org/10.59350/5c7kb-zvg49 #Web2.0 #Langzeitarchivierung#Publikationsverhalten #Wissenschaftskommunikation #OpenScience

Blogs sind heute ein integraler Bestandteil der digitalen Wissenschaftskommunikation und unterstützen verschiedene Kommunikationsfunktionen in der Wissenschaft. Sie können als Tagebuch im Sinne von Open Science genutzt werden, um aktuelle Ergebnisse aus dem Laboralltag zu dokumentieren und zu kommunizieren.

It feels timely today to repost something I wrote almost a decade ago:

How Web 2.0 killed the Internet

https://ar.al/notes/how-web-2-0-killed-the-internet/

Remember “Open APIs?” How Tim O’Reilly told us they were how we would build the “open web” in “Web 2.0?”

Turns out an Open API is open in the sense that a gate owned by someone else is open. In that it can just as easily be closed and locked at their whim.