Sublime
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There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.
Mike Caufield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
“librarians are what the internet is aching for—people on task to care about the past, with respect to the past and also to what it shall bequeath to the future.” Can we reimagine libraries for the digital age?
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
Hollis Robbins: Most people focus on the vast reserves of content now available online, but few people ask: “Is this a good teacher?”
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
The search experience on the internet is dying. Google is no longer trying to organize the world’s information. It’s just scraping it, stealing it, and serving an AI generated mashup of everything it steals from human creators in an effort to keep people on the first page of search results, because that’s where their ads are and where they make the
... See more“human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.”
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
we have to search for a more objectively true account.
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
It had a founding CEO, Tina Sharkey, who was unabashedly trying to build a community in public, and got great press.