@zwhnz Thanks Zoe for your insightful work with #OpenMonographPress (OMP)! Really loved how engaging your discussion was, and looking forward to how participant responses will shape the future of OMP...
Make sure to check the description in the YouTube upload for an opportunity to be aware of an upcoming survey and OMP updates!
Recording (and don't forget to check the description for useful resources):
Neo-Censorship in U.S. Libraries: An Investigation Into Digital Content Suppression is a painfully timely report into digital censorship in the United States, released by Library Futures in February 2025. It is an essential documentation of how our knowledge infrastructures are threatened, eroded, and deployed to ideological ends. Library Futures's
this will likely be a recurring reminder as the weeks go by, but i'm so excited about this project. i have to share! (this is the first time i've been nervous to announce something on this side of the web!)
i'm combining my 10 years of journalism experience with my love for the #indieweb by launching GOOD INTERNET, a regular periodical magazine in both print and digital formats. and this is a non-profit, completely independent endeavor!
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/
ultimately, Good Internet will cover a lot of different aspects of the small web: unplugging from the corporate web, fighting #enshittification, migrating from data-harvesting corpo social media, creating your own personal website, using code and website-building as an art form, federation, and creating websites for fun. it will be approachable for beginners and enjoyable for seasoned indie web travelers!
the #smallweb can be hard to keep up with if you aren't "plugged in," especially if you want to find other hobby website owners, folks coding for fun, weird web projects, or artists taking back their digital ownership. it's overdue that this side of the web has an analog publication!
having a central publication about the decentralized parts of the personal web makes me even more excited to share this hobby with those who might not even know about it--all within beautiful, high-res, high-quality pages.
the idea here is to have a physical celebration of this hobby in addition to being informative, helpful, and accessible.
consider signing up for email notifications when we launch the first issue in may 2025:
https://goodinternetmagazine.com
(if you're interested in #writing an article or op-ed about this side of the web/personal websites, coding an interactive article, or want to know what that even means, send an email to [email protected]! taking pitches for may 2025!)
#internet #socialmedia #personalwebsites #blogging #blog #print #magazine #writer #technology #tech #coding #programming #html #webdev #webdesign #web #smalltech #css #html #dev #web
I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359
Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.
I know we're all usually very cool and chill about what we put out into the world, but maybe sometimes it can feel a bit overwhelming. But there are good things in your head and you don't have to go right to the grandest, most perfect stage to get them
I've signed and made a commitment to resisting censorship, promoting venues that do the same, and supporting the many efforts to document the current crisis. You should too.
Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship, V.1.1 Drafted by Lisa Schiff (@lschiff.bsky.social), Alice Meadows (@alicemeadows.bsky.social), Catherine Mitchell (@camitchell.bsky.social), Sara Rouhi (@RouhiRoo.bsky.social), and Peter Suber (@[email protected]). Last...
I love publishing, but it has such a terrible reputation. Alongside the many grudges we all hold against most academic publishers– too big, too extractive, too rigid, too much gatekeeping etc.– I have a very personal one. They give publishers a bad name. Publishing is cool. It's communication! It's important!
I love publishing, but it has such a terrible reputation. Alongside the many grudges we all hold against most academic publishers– too big, too extractive, too rigid, too much gatekeeping etc.– I have a very personal one. They give publishers a bad name. Publishing is cool. It's communication! It's important!
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