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The Micro.blog experience and a few thoughts on the open web (Beardy Guy Musings) I write this and mull it over from the perspective of a creator and as a longer-term user of the “old web”. I have, at least, a basic grasp of the ideal (and importance of) the open web, ownership and access. I write it as someone frustrated with the nastiness of the business practices of the corporate entities that own the big social media as well…

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Paying for “FREE” with our data

Reuben Jackson by Matt Asay (ReadWrite) The minute we opened the doors to advertising to pay for our online world, we didn't merely grudgingly give up our privacy. We sold it. Willingly. And we shouldn't therefore be surprised that governments have eagerly been supping at the honeypots we've eagerly enabled to entrap ourselves. Yep.…

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