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3 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
You saw that story about the folded letter that has been left folded but can now be read, I'm watching the team explain how they did it here: facebook.com/letterlockingo…
Before the 1830s, you couldn't buy envelopes; letters were folded to send.
The scanner used to read the folded letter without unfolding it was designed for dental work.
The researchers have been working with this collection of letters since 2012. Gotta love researchers.

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5 Mar
"Companies without first-party relationships with consumers won’t be able to use their identity solutions on Google’s demand-side platform."
I spent a decade hectoring news companies to develop their first-party data & competence, to little avail.
The way to garner first-party data, I argued, was to build products, services, even clubs targeted at groups, needs, affinities. This is permission-based data (I build a service for parents; you use it; you are telling me you're a parent.) 2/ medium.com/whither-news/i…
This is also why we started a community of practice around commerce at @towknightcenter: to motivate publishers to learn how to build individual user profiling and to gather first-party data (and, btw, to create another revenue stream). 3/
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23 Feb
As near as I can tell, Facebook's deal means it & Google can avoid the horrible code Australia is passing if they succumb to blackmail beforehand. "We won't kidnap you if you pay our ransom." Good at least that the law is detoured around but it sucks.
cnet.com/news/facebook-…
In Australia, everybody's a loser, except Murdoch, who kidnapped them all. Pols wrote terrible, protectionist law to harm the net. Media soul their souls to the devil, Rupert. Google & FB made payoffs to avoid the law. The public? Nobody gives a shit about them.
Now the question is whether Australia will recognize this as the exercise of monopoly power -- my Murdoch -- and convene @MrKRudd' royal commission to investigate the fear in which he and his mob hold every other institution in the country. Should I hold my breath?
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17 Feb
Google just announced a deal with News Corp. I hate this. It means that media blackmail works. It sets a terrible precedent for the net. It gives Google yet more power over news. It is a win for the devil, Murdoch. I really hate that.
I will bet you that Google News Showcase traffic will be minimal. That's not the point. It's just an envelope stuffed with cash. Politicians were the bagmen.
What angers me most is that *journalism* organizations had *no* shame and *no* transparency about their conflict of interest, cashing in their political capital to buy political favor and conspiracy to blackmail the tech companies. Journalism *never* reported its conflict.
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16 Feb
Pssst: NBC. There's a wonderful, state-supported journalism school just up the road from you. @newmarkjschool

NBCUniversal creates $1M scholarship fund for underrepresented students at Columbia Journalism School journalism.columbia.edu/nbcuniversal-s…
Not that I want to compare ourselves to another school, but just sayin' NBC that your $1 million will cover slightly more than 8 scholarships at that school. At @newmarkjschool the same money would provide 54 journalists of color with opportunity. We stand ready to help.
I'll stop here but I can't help pointing out that that other university's endowment is $11.26 billion. Yes, b. We, thank goodness, received a $20 million endowment from @craignewmark. But the state has cut our budget (COVID) and our students are more in need than ever.
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29 Jan
One more thing, @esglaude. (Uh-oh.) I thank you for your help in writing a section of my book on the mass and publics. I turned to your paper on Dewey and African American Publics. 1/
philpapers.org/rec/GLATPO-8
You sought "means & methods of organizing an emergent public” for “the complex experiences that inform the varied political commitments & interests of African Americans... through new information & communication technologies, in intelligent and meaningful interaction w/others” 2/
That helped me bring Dewey, Lippmann, & James Carey together with two books that in turn helped me much: @cmcilwain's Black Software & @DocDre's Distributed Blackness. They chronicle what you sought. 3/
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29 Jan
@esglaude Well, @esglaude, since you ask. 😁.... I will start by highly recommending @jkosseff's The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet; it is excellent history and explanation. Here is summary: 1/
@esglaude @jkosseff It is #230 that enables the public conversation on the net. In perhaps Congress' last wise move, it recognized that if platforms & publishers were held liable for the public's conversation on the net, they would not host it and we'd be left with nothing but mass media online. 2/
@esglaude @jkosseff As the legislation's authors put it, #230 offers hosts of conversation a shield and a sword. First, the shield: Before #230, case law perversely had it that if you moderated contributions and missed something you were more liable than if you didn't try to moderate at all. 3/
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