 In light of @TexasObserver 's shutdown, I keep thinking independent #journalism has a similar funding problem as the #fediverse. It's fundamentally a "commons" activity and hard to monetize directly. If you do, you get ads, and paywalls and clickbait and all of that. Whatever the ultimate solution, perhaps both funding mechanisms turn out to be the same? What does “electronically disable” mean? https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russians-angry-downing-ukrainian-drone-over-their-homes-2023-03-27/ Have to agree with those arguing that plug-ins for #chatgpt (an “App Store” for it) are a big deal. VerifiedJournalist.org -- a rather interesting project that verifies journalists in the Fediverse. There's a ton of them already! Who knew so many journalists are here! /cc @jeff  Myself? I want to talk about what's on my #Fediverse wish list at #Fediforum, which is actually longer than the 8 points I blogged about here, but I gotta stop somewhere. https://reb00ted.org/tech/20230425-w3c-activitypub-wishlist/
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  @flaki@flak.is wants to talk about "Ownership of one's own data. Customization, user interfaces & ux of social feed consumption. Small communities. Reducing friction to self-hosting and small instances" at #FediForum There are so many interesting, and important subjects, like these, we could easily fill an entire week with interesting #FediForum sessions! E-commerce has been around for about 25 years. For anybody selling a consumer product, referring customers to "one of our partners" to get replacement parts -- none of whom have a way to buy parts on-line -- is simply not acceptable. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the neighbor is hammering something in his backyard. It must be spring. This is both absolutely amazing and frightening. #ai creates marketing campaign in 30min. https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/superhuman-what-can-ai-do-in-30-minutes This graph of credit default swap prices has a bigger peak just now than I would have guessed. I wonder where this is going. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/24/era-swiss-exceptionalism/ If you are an implementor of #ActivityPub, or any related social web apps or protocols, please try to come to the meeting on the future of ActivityPub standardization and related subjects next Wednesday, March 29. It's on-line and hosted by #FediForum and the W3C's Social Web Interest Community Group. We want to hear from you! Standards should not be created in a vacuum. If you have tried to use ActivityPub (successfully or not!), tell us what you need! And perhaps get involved making it so.
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 As someone who has already extended ActivityPub way too much, I may be interested in this  @J12t https://fediforum.org/fediforum-w3c-swicg-2023-03-29/ tomorrow at 10am Pacific, right? "Why I am co-organizing FediForum". Blogged. https://reb00ted.org/society/20230220-why-im-helping-organize-fediforum/ |
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@J12t @TexasObserver Even as newspapers are shutting down, the newsletter business appears to be growing, many organizations sponsor paid-entry speaker series, YouTube videos are making advertising money, etc.
"Journalism" != "Newspapers."
It seems to me that rather than shutting down, some of these newspapers should consider reformulating themselves as centers for a broader range of profitable journalism-related activities.
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