McFilter: April 2019 Archives

April 29, 2019

IWOC Technology Policy. A decent set of criteria to judge technology against when deciding what to use. Good to see unions making these considerations and sharing their thoughts, process and choices.
Reaction of the rich to the Notre Dame fire teaches us a lot about the world we live in. We should rebuild Notre Dame, but it also reminds us that austerity, poverty, etc. could be tackled more than they are, and not doing so is a choice that we're making, or allowing to be made by who we elect as leaders.
Dollars on the Margins. This has been lost among my many open tabs for ages, but was a good read on the difference being able to afford to live makes to people.
Collective Action and the Commons: What Have We Learned? Interesting lecture from Elinor Ostrom talking about managing #commons and the need for trust and communication between groups (among other things).

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Split. "the split that worries the most is this: The people who make the web vs. the people who are excluded from making the web."
Prototyping in Tokyo. Interesting thoughts on simplicity of form and humans relating to objects.
Government as a Platform, the hard problems: part 2 — the design of services & public policy. Good stuff on digital government from Richard Pope. I particularly like the point that we shouldn't look for just the most efficient and one-way-to-do-things approach, that there are should/could be multiple paths through the system. All sizes fit one, rather than one size fits all.
The billionaire's typewriter. Excellent essay about Medium.com, but also applicable to so many of the "content platforms".

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