Digital Crossroads is a mishmash of the coolest updates, deep dives, and quirky insights from across the digital realm. We cover topics like RSS, the Fediverse, and the latest and greatest in the world of social media. Crossroads is for anyone who's ever been curious about the behind-the-scenes of the Internet, the future of online privacy, or just loves a good tech tale.
Blogs are Back?! Folks are dusting off their dormant blogs! It’s a new thing! A Revival! Strap yourself in, my three readers, this post is going to be a douzy. Back to blogging, Huh? Who left? Not to brag, but why not, this blog has gone on steadily– HEY WAIT A MINUTE I GOT DATA […]
Doomscrolling is over. Now, everyone is “monitoring the situation.”
Social media has changed the game for real estate advertising. But it creates new risks we need to manage carefully.
The New York Post Metro secution RSS feed now includes California Post articles. This was not concerning until I saw an ambiguous article about a new U.S. HQ for the maker of "Labubus"
Following the success of TikTok and Instagram Reels, Verts is designed to boost daily engagement and reach mobile-first viewers, all while increasing discovery across Disney+'s catalog.
In 2020, after five years at Vox, journalist Johnny Harris left to start his own YouTube channel. Today, the channel he built with his wife Iz, featuring “videos that help you better understand the world,” has more than 7.5 million subscribers. Now the Harrises are using what they’ve learned to buil...
AltStore PAL, the alternative iOS app store available in the European Union and Japan, is joining the social web. In a post on Wednesday, AltStore PAL announced that users across Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky can now interact with apps that developers choose to federate on its explore.alt.store web...
I feel very seen here. This describes how I built The Session: There are still people building the web by hand, very much like we did it in the early days. They know all about what’s possible using modern tooling, yet they choose to expend their time and attention to the craft of doing it by han...
I’ve started using the Thunderbird email client for reading RSS feeds again, and it’s honestly quite great. As opposed to it not honestly being great, which if true, would kind of defeat the point of writing this post. I’ve gone through a bunch of self-hosted web RSS clients. They had the advantage ...
What’s the least you can do to build an effective paywall for creators that’s mostly open-source? If we can figure that out, that might make it easier to cut out the big platforms.
A case for breaking away from our attentional addictions.
Today's links The web is bearable with RSS: And don't forget "Reader Mode." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Eyemodule x Disneyland; Scott Walker lies; Brother's demon-haunted printer; 4th Amendment luggage tape; Sanders x small donors v media; US police killings tallied. ...
In Compton Lecture at MIT, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns of dramatic global decay in cognition, attention spans, and civic life, and urges curbs to tech use.
Discover how to build a lasting reading habit with the help of e-readers, apps, audiobooks, and tech tools. Stay motivated and organized as you dive into the world of books. <p>The post How to Build a Reading Habit That Lasts Using Tech Tools first appeared on Good e-Reader.</p>
*This interview has been edited for length and clarity. David Greene: Shin, please introduce yourself to the Speaking Freely community. Shin Yang: My name is Shin Yang. I am a queer writer with a legal background and experience in product management. I am the steward of Lezismore, an independent, s...
BBC tech journalist Thomas Germain’s simple—and hilarious—experiment exposes a serious flaw in common artificial intelligence tools
Tiny macOS utility apps I love – Part 7, the psychology of holding on to beliefs, magic words, and more in this week's issue of Creativerly.
Batman Forever website, launched May 1995. If 1994 was when the Web became a publishing medium, then 1995 was when the Web truly marked itself as a unique expressive medium. The Web became a place — a destination — rather than a mere repository for documents. In previous posts, we've seen how web de...
Ok, before I start, let me just clarify this demo is kind of a remix of my earlier post about building an RSS aggregator in Astro. I did run into some interesting issues this time around though and I figured it was worth a share. At Webflow, our developer docs are separated into different sections p...