Robert Mahon (@bedform.org)
It amazes me how much money our professional societies spend on outside firms to make certain their conference websites get worse and worse every single year
The Pac-Man Rule at Conferences
I firmly believe that conferences can provide a lot of value for people in an industry. Conferences allow people to create a network, which helps them feel integrated in a community and profession....
How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.
Reckoning: Frontend's Lost Decade | Alex Russell | performance.now() 2024
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Around the world, building the internet’s operating system—and a better way to work. In a world of tech companies fighting for growth at any cost, imagine one that gives away its most successful pr…
“Data Strikes”: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a New Form of Collective Action Against Technology Companies | The World Wide Web Conference
Collaborative recommendation is effective at representing a user's overall interests and tastes, and finding peer users that can provide good recommendations. However, it remains a challenge to make collaborative recommendation sensitive to a user's ...
The Atmosphere Is Rebuilding The Web, But Better
Ten thoughts on the Atmosphere Conference...
Imagine things being so bad that your best solution is to cut yourself off from Google Search traffic. I don't think that people realise just how much of a bad actor Google has been, for year. No other company has damaged the web nearly as much. 🧵 adweek.com/media/publishers-opt-out-goog…
Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
www.adweek.comThe internet has evolved to foster a fatal expectation: that the things we depend on every day are free. They aren't, but we're allowed to pretend they are with the help of ad-driven business models. The real cost is substantial, and can be measured in time, money, relationships, health, and more.
Fund Your Internet
fundyourinternet.orgImagine things being so bad that your best solution is to cut yourself off from Google Search traffic. I don't think that people realise just how much of a bad actor Google has been, for year. No other company has damaged the web nearly as much. 🧵 adweek.com/media/publishers-opt-out-goog…
Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
www.adweek.comI'm convinced that there is a huge Atmosphere-sized hole in the personal website market, and here's why that matters👇
Why websites?
anna.pckt.blogThe most annoying part of using these apps for professional conferences is signing up, linking with people, and losing those connections b/c you never use the app again. This seems like something AT protocol was made for. Anyone at @sifa.id or @semble.so interested in putting this together? 👀
Richard Ferro, MD MSc
Is there already a conference app on AT proto?
yet another example of scientists vibing better ways to navigating conferences because the current system is trash. we (atproto) have a real surface here if we can get a cohesive solution into the hands of conference attendees and organizer #atdev @atproto.science
Sasha Gusev
An ASHG planner that doesn't suck (Claude): sashagusev.github.io/ashg-2026-planner/
This is probably one of the most important issues in terms of labor, tech, UX, etc that the Atmosphere needs to solve (decentralized moderation). I would invite people to pay attention to what the @blackskyweb.xyz team and its community are doing and take notes.
A brief 🧵 for all outside the #atproto bubble on why, from a digital industrial policy perspective, this step is deeply bewildering. There's @eurosky.social – open source, non-profit, fully aligned with the EU's open source strategy. It provides all that W has, & more. And yet, the Commission...
European Commission
We have now joined W, a new European social media network. We’re present on 15+ platforms, and are especially happy to join one based in Europe and with the ambition to foster open and safer online conversations. Keep the conversation going - whether from W, Bluesky or other compatible apps.
