Here’s the OP. Thanks to Nyoki on Antenna for finding all this.

News websites are among the very worst websites in the entire world. Always have been. We need real news, real reporting, real journalism, but the ad tracking badweb around it is like cement shoes.

News and journalism websites absolutely totally dropped the ball many years ago and has never recovered it. Now perhaps they’re not to blame for it anymore than an oil painter is to be blamed for not understanding JPEG artifacts but this is one of the main reason the world is so messed up now.

This isn’t new. We’ve been drenched by garbage web since the nineties with Dreamweaver and Flash and huge pixmaps. But even so, it’s refreshing to see it called out.

The future of the web depends on simple, open standards.

Research & Development at The New York Times explores how emerging technologies can be applied in service of journalism.

a linux based internet alarm clock and widget device

“If we want a kinder, gentler, and more civilized society, we’d be better off focusing on the kind of behavior that’s acceptable, and that’s not, and less on over-the-top attacks on an entire medium of communication.”