interesting Systems Thinking EBook by Alan G Carter (more)

unique name of a network on the Internet (more)

John Henry predicts: Mastodon is dead in the water (more)

IndieAuth is a way to use your own Domain (IndieWeb) name to sign in to websites. It's like OpenID, but works with services you probably already use! It works by linking your website to one or more authentication providers such as Twitter or Google, then entering your domain name in the login form on websites that support IndieAuth. http://indiewebcamp.com/IndieAuth (more)

WebFinger is about making EMail addresses more valuable, by letting people attach public Meta Data (Digital Identity) to them. (more)

see MicroBlog, OpenMicroBlogging (more)

MicroBlogging company/product that came out of LaconiCa/IdentiCa (more)

GNU social (previously known as StatusNet and once known as Laconica[4]) is a Free and open source software microblogging server written in PHP that implements the OStatus standard for interoperation between installations. While offering functionality similar to Twitter, GNU social seeks to provide the potential for open, inter-service and distributed communications between microblogging communities. Enterprises and individuals can install and control their own services and data.[5][6] GNU social has been deployed on hundreds of interoperating servers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_social

Mike Caulfield on Polarization and Expressive Responding (more)

Carl Richards challenges how most people approach Personal Finance. the specific investments you choose probably won’t determine your financial prospects. I often run into folks who spend a lot of time hunting for great investments even as they ignore more fundamental issues (Simplest Thing) in their financial situation. (more)

Dave Winer wants to bring back Ted Nelson's Computer Lib Dream Machines. If we could get our hands on a copy of the 70s book, and scan it, we couldn't upload it as a PDF (which is what I would like to see happen) because Ted doesn't want it to.

to concentrate on one thing at a time, to GTD (more)

creator of Dilbert, author How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big (more)

Dan Hon says: I’ve been slowly and gradually learning that the way my head works is by trying to connect everything together (IntertwingularIty). Sometimes this works well, where I’ve been lucky to find rewarding and meaningful work that benefits from seeing the connections between things, making conclusions and suggesting how things might work differently. Other times this works terribly, where everything becomes a mutually reinforcing web that can drag me down into debilitating depression. (more)

Gina Bianchini is Taking On Facebook Once Again With Mighty Networks (more)

Co-Founder of Ning

John Robb: The Case for Neo-Isolationism (NonInterventionism) (more)

Facebook faces increased publisher resistance to Instant Articles (more)

Renamed to WebSub. A simple, open, server-to-server Web-Hook-based PubSub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom Standards (and RSS). (more)

Ben Evans: The end of SmartPhone Innovation (more)