Month: May 2019

Stumbled across this app Manifold: https://manifoldapp.org/
‘intuitive, collaborative, open-source platform for scholarly publishing’

Looks pretty good. I landed on this article from a web search and was genuinely intrigued what it was running on. It’s very nicely presented and has no ads or crap trying to get me to do something else on the platform. Feels nice!

Just needs federated annotations…

https://manifold.umn.edu/read/dark-deleuze/section/fba38040-7b5e-435c-b9ce-cebc2949d027#intro

Also an interesting talk on the harms and perceived harms of social media on children, and how these might be reduced. Things like cyber bullying; inability to perceive manipulated content; problem of ‘persuasive design’; exposure to harmful content; overuse and disconnection anxiety.

Is Fediverse a good space to mitigate these? Do any instances currently actually actively cater to children?

Interesting talk today discussing the importance of having human rights activists embedded in protocol organisations. Basically having someone who pushes for the consideration of impact on human rights when technical standards are being defined.

The talk was specifically on the IETF. They gave the example of data leakage in WebRTC revealing IP addresses and said an activist had raised this and it had gotten fixed. Anyone know details of that?

Liked Missing Numbers, the Gaps in Government Data by Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org)

A new weblog has been started by Anna Powell-Smith, called Missing Numbers:
Missing Numbers is a blog about the data that the government should collect and measure in the UK, but doesn’t.
I expect that whatever she finds in missing data within the UK public sector, similar or matching examples can…