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We should tread carefully while bringing AR and ads technologies together. AR is still a growing tech and opening the doors for ads can potentially ruin it before it gets a chance to settle.
Facebook is testing augmented reality ads in the News Feed (@anthonyha / TechCrunch)https://t.co/wPlX9itSzBhttps://t.co/kerSufZX4U
— Techmeme (@Techmeme) July 10, 2018
★ Liked “re-setting my mental clock” by @ayjay
I have always told myself that I have time to think about what, if anything, I want to write next, but I haven’t really believed it, and I think that’s been due to my immersion in the time-frame of Twitter and other social media.
★ Liked Privacy Policy for ascraeus.org
When you send a webmention to this site, you are explicitly providing metadata in your site’s markup, and this information is used to display your comment/reply on this site.
Webmentions is one aspect I need to call out that I collect information via, even though I do not persist any of the information. I think I may stitch something up inspired by this.
So, I had recently got a blog created with blot.im. It will continue to exist in parallel to existing site built with Hugo. And as @jack recently wrote, it’s fine. Hope is eventually one will get tiring.
I read this nice article on how being a parent might (or might not) affect one’s writing. It made me think hard if parenting does affect my creativity. I just could not let the thoughts linger. So here’s a response.
h/t @herself
★ Liked “An Interview with Andy Hertzfeld - Architect of the original Macintosh”
We’ve all seen the legendary Apple keynotes and how personal computing has transformed the way we live and work, but what I was really interested to learn from Andy was what it was like to shape that vision from scratch, what it was like to work as an engineer when most people didn’t even really understand what a computer was, when the frontier of what it could become was wide open.
★ Liked A Vision of Paradise by Jeremy Martin
Amy Hoy writes so effortlessly about the web and websites as the internet around was changing. With one plaint to end with.
There are no more quirky homepages.
There are no more amateur research librarians.
It is good premis to explore, but wit such a shitty, linkbaity headline - “How blogs broke the internet”.
All thanks to a quirky bit of software produced to alleviate the pain of a tiny subset of a very small audience.
Blogs didn’t break the internet, it made the internet mainstream.
Not every user is a tinkerer — early natives of the web may have liked the web controlled that way. But most users have stories to tell. Blogs, might be quirky for some, gave them voice. And that’s no “tiny subset”.
Whenever I read a book instead of Twitter for half an hour, I’m like: “Oh yeah! Words can make you feel good sometimes!”