Graham Nash breaks down “Our House” for Song Exploder
— he has an extraordinary memory, reliving the stories behind a beautifully simple song #Google is getting even worse for independent sites
— grateful to Mia Sato for staying on this beat, which affects so many smaller sites I care about #Nintendo Alarmo can run custom code via USB without opening it up
— getting it to run DOOM is only a matter of time #The RIP Off
— BRAIN scraped 16 years of Twitter to find the first people to post “RIP” when celebrities died, turning it into a morbid competition #Boing Boing launches ad-free paid version on Substack, shuttering discussion forums
— the BBS goes read-only on Friday, replaced by Substack comments, and the community is not happy #Ghost founder/CEO John O’Nolan on how they’re structured and funded
— a useful case study given the current debacle stemming from WordPress’s “benevolent dictator for life” model via @johnonolan #Anti-government militias using Facebook to recruit and organize in plain sight
— in some cases, Meta is automatically creating the pages via Garbage Day #Vanishing Culture, the Internet Archive’s “Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record”
— research and short essays about cultural loss and the critical importance of preservation and access #A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
— The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel’s clearheaded “endorsement of democracy, solving problems, and Kamala Harris” #The Pudding’s interactive explainer on Crokinole
— like curling meets shuffleboard on a tabletop board #This Must Be The Place lyric tattoos
— Liverpool tattoo artist Rachel Baldwin made charming tattoos for each line of the Talking Heads classic and made it into a music video #2004 Week on The Verge
— a series of articles looking back 20 years, worth exploring just for the playful article design inspired by early Gmail, Digg, Kazaa, and more #The XOXO 2024 Talks
Last week, we released the talks from the final XOXO.
In the eight years that Andy McMillan and I put on XOXO, we had so many wonderful talks—you can peruse the featured tag for some of our favorites from the full archive—but I think we both agreed this was the single best day of talks we ever had.
The consistency was so high, it was clear every speaker understood the assignment. Every talk is worth watching.
The Talks
“We can build the web we want to see.” Molly White kicked off XOXO 2024’s conference with a hopeful talk about building Web3 Is Going Just Great and how we can “push the web back towards the wonderful, joyful, beautiful place it used to be.”
