Welcome to the Wiki Node of the DigitalGarden/WikiLog of Bill Seitz. (more)

The interestingness you get passively in an urban village. (more)

Ubiquity, a legacy browser extension for Mozilla Firefox, was a collection of quick and easy natural-language-derived commands that act as mashups of web services, thus allowing users to get information and relate it to current and other webpages. It also allowed Web users to create new commands without requiring much technical background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquity_(Firefox) (more)

Phil Jones has been nutting for Enso for awhile. I now see (a) they've gone Open Source, and (b) it's written in Python! Now I just need to figure out whether it would actually be useful for me! Seems like a Command Line interface. (more)

Jono Xia: Retrospective: What We Learned from the Ubiquity extension. (more)

Data portability is a concept to protect users from having their data stored in "silos" or "walled gardens" that are incompatible with one another, i.e. closed platforms, thus subjecting them to vendor lock-in and making the creation of data backups or moving accounts between services difficult. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_portability cf interop

The Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching Act of 2021, or the ACCESS Act of 2021, is a proposed antitrust bill in the United States House of Representatives. The purpose of the legislation is to mandate data portability from Big Tech companies to provide users the ability to switch their data between platforms... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACCESS_Act_of_2021

laws prohibiting corporate rules/contracts which stop users/3rd-parties from repairing tools

Cory Doctorow term for process of a given business/institution turning increasingly from value creation to value extraction (cf surveillance capitalism) (more)

A failed attempt to build Scheme into the WebBrowser. (more)

"standard" a physician/provider must pass in use of an EMR to get ARRA reimbursement (more)

Indie

Mark Bernstein meme - Neo-Victorian: 2007-10-17-BernsteinNeo-VictorianComputing (more)

Gross Domestic Income (more)

BigCo, Big Media, Big Government, Big Agriculture, Big Medicine, Big Education, Big Retail, Big Religion, etc. (more)

Late capitalism, late-stage capitalism, or end-stage capitalism is a term first used in print by German economist Werner Sombart around the turn of the 20th century.[1] In the late 2010s, the term began to be used in the United States and Canada to refer to corporate capitalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism

(just) the way things are (more)

P&G, Procter & Gamble (Procter and Gamble). King of the CPG companies.

The Summer of Protocols is a summer (2023) research program plus an all-season ongoing conversation, comprising an active online events track and a newsletter... https://summerofprotocols.com/ https://paragraph.xyz/@protocolized (more)

Alan George "A. G." Lafley (born June 13, 1947) is an American businessman that led consumer goods (CPG) maker Procter & Gamble (P and G) for two separate stints, from 2000 to 2010 and again from 2013 to 2015, during which he served as chairman, president and CEO.[2] In 2015, he stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman of P&G, eventually retiring in June 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.G._Lafley