Link-rot and Schrödinger's URL
As this website has matured over the years, I regularly encounter bookmarks or links to sites that no longer exist. Motivated by some recent input on the topic (Remy Sharp via Jeremy Keith, an IndieWebCamp session, Jeremy Cherfas), I took a moment to evaluate how I may want to deal with the “link-rot” problem on this website myself.
versatiles.org
VersaTiles, “a completely FLOSS stack for generating, distributing and using map tiles based on OpenStreetMap data, free of any commercial interests” looks like a promising contender to OpenMapTiles. Both are interesting alternatives to commercial […]
Gerry McGovern
"World Wide Waste"
Digital is physical. Digital is not green. Digital costs the Earth. Every time I download an email I contribute to global warming. Every time I tweet, do a search, check a webpage, I create pollution. Digital is physical. Those data centers are not in the Cloud. They’re on land in massive physical buildings packed full of computers hungry for energy. It seems invisible. It seems cheap and free. It’s not. Digital costs the Earth.
Quote: "Stop calling people “content creators”
rubenerd.com
I feel this as well …and it irks me the same way as the term “user-generated content”. There is a massive difference in referring to “content” in a technical sense vs. reducing people to “content creators”. I wouldn’t even refer to a single piece of work by any creator as “content” unless talking about it in a purely technical sense. Otherwise, it’s a photograph, a film, an art piece, a text or the like.