2024-09-15 Sunday Links
Sep 15, 2024
- How to Monetize a Blog - A literal satirical art piece on monetising blogs
- The Web of Alexandria (follow-up) (2015) - A thoughtful piece on why both the ephemerality and the preservation of the web are problematic
historically, people have relied on different media for different social purposes, and have relied on a clear understanding of how the technical properties of each medium determine the social and temporal scope of its messages. Think about speech, letters, newspapers, books, smoke signals… Each medium serves only a particular subset of social purposes, and each medium is technically transparent enough that people can understand what’s happening when they use it.
- PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights - My new favourite dumb computer project: a system to proxy the web through fields in an airmiles profile to allow free, unrestricted browsing in the sky