Web

21 January 2025 Own Your Turf

The urgent need for decentralized social media platforms that resist censorship and allow user control has become increasingly clear.

4 January 2025 The blog's themes, summarized

Summarizing my blog tags around key themes in my writing.

7 December 2022 New Avenues

23 November 2022 Running my Reading Log

How I manage my reading log.

22 November 2022 Web People

19 November 2022 0 Tweets

It's time to leave Twitter.

9 November 2022 Thinking on the Collapse of Twitter

23 June 2022 The URL is a Radical Act

The web enables the act of visiting and revisiting, lowering the barriers of participation.

23 May 2022 The emotions of life online

19 October 2021 Turning 30

An essay co-authored with Brandon Locke, Sarah Melton, and Rachel Mattson on data advocacy and the annual Endangered Data Week initiative.

5 July 2017 Standing up for Net Neutrality

The dismantling of net neutrality is bad for the web.

18 January 2012 Standing Against SOPA

The Stop Online Piracy Act is bad legislation, and bad for the web.

17 November 2011 Who Controls the Master Switch

A reading reflection of Tim Wu for HIST946.

9 November 2011 What My lolcat Ate For Breakfast

A reading reflection on the state of the web for HIST946.

14 July 2011 Own Your Identity

You need to control your identity on the web.

16 January 2011 Facebook and the Problem of Publics

There's a distinction to make between _a_ public and _the_ public.

23 April 2008 The Challenge of Digital History

Historians have to play a role in defining good history on the web.