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Alex Payne's Twitter catharsis

Alex Payne:

The call for a decentralized Twitter speaks to deeper motives than profit: good engineering and social justice. Done right, a decentralized one-to-many communications mechanism could boast a resilience and efficiency that the current centralized Twitter does not. Decentralization isn’t just a better architecture, it’s an architecture that resists censorship and the corrupting influences of capital and marketing. At the very least, decentralization would make tweeting as fundamental and irrevocable a part of the Internet as email. Now that would be a triumph of humanity.

Bonnier Mag+ Prototype.

I consider this a raw preview of 2010 and the future of publishing.

Via Applesfera.

Instapaper (analogue edition):

I know books are supposed to be old media, but there’s something that feels futuristic about holding this one. It’s imperfect, disposable, personal. I can scribble on it and dog-ear it, and read it lying down. It cost around $10 and arrived in less than a week.

Via Thoughtwax.

I love Instapaper. Thanks Marco.

Great approach. The convergence of design disciplines in this project is something to learn from.

These are the days my friends.