Recent Web Tuesday
First, a big congratulations to friend of the blog Anil Dash, new CEO at Fog Creek. And a 2nd big congratulations on their launch of Gomix—a hosted community app builder. I love the view source philosophy behind it. It'll be fun to see what people build with it.
And here are some recent links:
The State of Things
And here are some recent links:
The State of Things
- New York Times: The Array of Conflicts of Interest Facing the Trump Presidency (closed loops)
- Washington Post: Trump's stock holdings may give him a personal stake in rules on banks and oil firms
- New Yorker: Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About
- Politico: Trump inherits Obama boom
- New York Review of Books: Trump: The Choice We Face
- MIT Technology Review: Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It's Too Much Like TV (by mefi's own hoder)
- Facebook's Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible With News ("The last thing Facebook wants is to contradict you in any way.")
- The Guardian: Google, democracy and the truth about internet search
- Mike Monteiro: How To Fight Fascism
- Nielsen Norman Group: The Distribution of Users' Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
- GDS design notes: We've updated the radios and checkboxes on GOV.UK
- Lawrence Lessig: The Equal Protection argument against "winner take all" in the Electoral College
- Electors Trust
- New York Times: Why I Will Not Cast My Electoral Vote for Donald Trump
- Fusion: What GitHub did to kill its trolls
- Buzzfeed: Silicon Valley's Most Popular Forum Bans Stories About Politics
- Keeping Instagram Safe: More Tools and Control (added anonymous reporting for self-injury posts)
- FBI to gain expanded hacking powers as Senate effort to block fails (thanks for fighting this, Ron Wyden)
- Buzzfeed: After Trump's Win, Secure Messaging App Signal's Downloads Increase 400%
- EFF: Power Up Your Donation
- It doesn't look like anything to me (via @codinghorror)
- So bad it's good: Toto - Africa (many more at mefi)
- Christmas Gifs ( NSFW )