Sep 2021

Douglas Adams: Hyperland

Available on the Internet Archive, this somewhat trippy, and for sure visionary documentary on hypertext from thirty years ago still keeps to inspire; what with Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson and all those other pioneers in it.
2021

Training that technical writing muscle

Many think of designers as those restlessly creative, artist minds whose work consists mainly of producing ever new ideas and concepts. While that kind of work is genuinely fun to do, I have always seen design mostly as the work of digging ever deeper, working out the details, and most importantly taking the perspective of somebody unfamiliar with the subject.
2021

Minus

minus.social

This piece is actually relevant in so many ways; not only does it reverse the logic all of today's media appears to be built upon, but it generally provokes to reconsider the assumed infinity of resources in this world (here: attention of human beings).
2021

Crowdforcing: When What I “Share” Is Yours

uncomputing.org

Every "sharing" interaction in a digital system has externalities – costs to somebody not involved in the transaction themselves: whenever an individual shares a resource or information about themselves, they are likely also sharing something that isn't theirs.
2021

Luxury Surveillance

reallifemag.com

Using surveillance-based services out of a (perceived or real) position of privilege contributes to normalizing systematic surveillance on a societal level.
2021