Articles by benwerd
111

The political effects of X's feed algorithm (werd.io)

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An Increasingly Dangerous World (werd.io)

11

The Five Levels: From spicy autocomplete to the dark factory (danshapiro.com)

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Who Owns Your Data? (werd.io)

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Remembering Beyond Vietnam on MLK Day (werd.io)

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The Zurich Protocol (werd.io)

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47 Lessons (werd.io)

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How I Hire Engineers (werd.io)

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An Interesting Year (werd.io)

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Is the Article Dead? (werd.io)

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The world needs social sovereignty (joinmastodon.org)

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Why RSS Matters (werd.io)

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The Web Runs on Tolerance (shkspr.mobi)

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You Can't Legislate Serendipity (werd.io)

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"Disagree and Let's See" (mollyg.substack.com)

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The EFF we need now (werd.io)

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The State of the Open Social Web (werd.io)

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Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump (propublica.org)

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There's no such thing as neutral technology (werd.io)

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Europe Can't Defend Democracy on US Servers (techpolicy.press)

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Why the open social web matters now (werd.io)

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Build what makes you special. Buy the rest (werd.io)

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The One-on-One Gift Exchange (pointc.co)

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Building distributed media for a democratic breakdown (werd.io)

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What I learned in the first five years of Platformer (platformer.news)

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The Learning Zone Matrix (pointc.co)

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Using technology skills for positive change (werd.io)

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WordPress for Newsrooms (werd.io)

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Can newsrooms become social platforms? (werd.io)

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GregoryAI aims to improve the lives of researchers and patients alike (werd.io)

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Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon (techcrunch.com)

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Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar (newpublic.substack.com)

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Escaping the chains of tethered products: the Juice Rescue project (natematias.com)

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Political Pollsters Are Trying to Save Money by Polling AI (futurism.com)

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CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)

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Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser (werd.io)

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Molly White knows how to follow the memecoin (niemanlab.org)

3

Lifelogging Under Fascism (werd.io)

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Ghost 6.0 (ghost.org)

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Mythbusting Large Language Models (medium.com/joelochlannsmith)

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If I ran NPR and PBS (werd.io)

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If I Ran X (werd.io)

18

America Is a Myth (werd.io)

3

Republican Budget Bill Signals New Era in Federal Surveillance (techpolicy.press)

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Schools serving undocumented kids go underground (19thnews.org)

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AI won't live on publisher sites (werd.io)

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When people trust humans more than brands: the incubator newsroom (werd.io)

13

What Is Open Source? (werd.io)

2

Building a Newsroom Technology Culture (werd.io)

1

The Half Sheet (pointc.co)

3

Let's fund the open social web (werd.io)

2

If I Started Fresh (werd.io)

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If I Ran Mastodon (werd.io)

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If I ran Bluesky Product (werd.io)

4

Doctor Who is the best show ever made. Here's why (werd.io)

2

We're not a startup – and that's fine (werd.io)

3

Vivian Jenna Wilson (Musk's Estranged Daughter) Interviewed in Teen Vogue (teenvogue.com)

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Forcing people back to the office was a choice. I'm making mine (werd.io)

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Trump wants to review all prospective citizens' social media accounts (theverge.com)

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DOGE's Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than Doge Will Ever Save (propublica.org)

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Decentralizing the cloud: separating software from infrastructure (werd.io)

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Minimum Viable Startup Operations (startupsoup.substack.com)

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The web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back (werd.io)

13

GSA Eliminates 18F (werd.io)

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Ask a CTO (werd.io)

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An update on searching for trans-friendly employers who sponsor visas (werd.io)

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Tech Continues to Be Political (miriamsuzanne.com)

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Move Fast and Break Democracy (werd.io)

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Ask a CTO (werd.io)

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A guide to using Signal for government workers (wholelottanothing.org)

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I want you to do these four things (werd.io)

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Seeking trans-friendly employers who sponsor visas (werd.io)

1

Predictions for Tech, 2025 (werd.io)

1

Creating a Framework for Living Well (werd.io)

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The open social web is the future of the internet. Here's why I'm excited (werd.io)

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Bluesky, AI, and the battle for consent on the open web (werd.io)

4

What I Want from Mozilla (werd.io)

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Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media (werd.io)

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PSA: Social Media Privacy and You (werd.io)

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Non-profit newsrooms that speak truth to power (werd.io)

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The Web and I (werd.io)

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Helping to build the open social web (werd.io)

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Republicans, young adults trust social media about as much as news (werd.io)

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Revisiting Known (werd.io)

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It turns out I'm still excited about the web (werd.io)

1

The Two Fediverses (werd.io)

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Is There Still a Place for Print in the Future of Media? (werd.io)

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The Social Web Foundation Is Shaping the Next Era of the Web (werd.io)

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One Thing You Wish People Better Understood About Venture Capital (hunterwalk.com)

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Surveillance Watch (surveillancewatch.io)

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What I want to see from every product team (werd.io)

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The Silicon Valley Would-Be Vice President (werd.io)

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An open letter to the United Nations (open-internet-governance.org)

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Don't let them tell you what to think (werd.io)

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Escaping the 9-5 (werd.io)

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Innovation Depends on Inclusion (werd.io)

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UK broadcasters trade ad airtime for advertisers' shares (theguardian.com)

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Protecting Artists on the Fediverse (werd.io)

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The AI Data Goldmine (werd.io)

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Dispatches from the Media Apocalypse (werd.io)