Chris Salzman

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  • Newsletter May 7, 2018

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    Shorter one today because we spent the weekend out in the sun at Camp Pendalouan celebrating my brother-in-law and sister-in-law’s wedding. We had our wedding there 6 years ago and it was lovely to be back without needing to also do all the extremely fun and draining things one needs to do on their wedding…

  • Who should own a website?

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    Republishing from the April 30th, 2018 newsletter. Everyone. Everyone would do well to have that place on the internet they can put the thing. I’m a broken record, but twitter and facebook are not that place if you want it to exist in perpetuity (for certain values of perpetuity). My favorite parts of the internet…

  • Newsletter April 30, 2018

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    Other Newsletters Ed’s Vacuum Newsletter for 2018-W17 – lots on local politics, which these days is basically all about the building (or “not building”) of places for people to live. Also, he talks about how to subscribe to the newsletter and the problems therein. Patti Smith has a newsletter too! Newsletter 4/29/18 – Ann Arbor…

  • Making Sure Someone Sees It

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    Republishing from the April 30th, 2018 newsletter. Two of the other newsletters this week mention a problem that anyone who creates anything runs into: how do you make sure that everyone who should see it actually sees it? Marketing at its best is essentially finding an answer to this. A market for whatever niche content…

  • Newsletter April 23, 2018

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    Ed’s Newsletter and the Dramatic Rescue of Archie Ed’s Vacuum/2018-W16.md is another good one (of course!). Read up on the Y lot vote happening this week, which, woof…it’s acrimonious. Ed also recounts the story of a lost dog that was eventually found via NextDoor. A few months ago we helped get a lost dog back…

  • Algorithmic Feeds Trend to Homogeneity

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    Republished from the April 23, 2018 Newsletter. The medium is the message and our mediums are shaping the messages we’re willing to share. The allure of the algorithmic feed is that it shows more relevant information to individual users. However, it maps very poorly with how people WANT the services to act. For example, I…

  • The Passing of CATACA

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    Our cat, CATACA, died suddenly yesterday. She was acting normally and seemingly fine and then in the span of an hour she was gone. I found her lying on the ground her stomach heaving. Within a half hour we had her packed up to get to an emergency vet. My wife took her there and…

  • Newsletter April 9, 2018

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    Here are the Other Local Newsletters You Should be Reading Ed’s Vacuum newsletter for 2018-W14, Issue 5 (new series) George’s Roundup, April 6 The CivCity Initiative Spring Scrimmage for Local Civics! Reader and RSS Anil Dash tweeted a sentiment that resonated a lot with me: Google’s decision to kill Google Reader was a turning point…

  • Newsletter April 2, 2018

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    Newsletters, Local Newsletter Type Things Ed’s Vacuum newsletter for 2018-W13, Issue 4 is a good one. Lots of items of local Ann Arbor interest, and also one about multimeters! And George wrote a roundup! The tweet he shares in there made me a very angry online person. Internet, Ownership If I had a mission statement…

  • Internet, Ownership

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    Republished from the April 2, 2018 Newsletter. If I had a mission statement right now it’d be this: more people exhibiting more ownership over more of what they produce online. Right now we’ve swung almost entirely to allowing social media to own everything about our activity online: both in terms of consumption and production. Social…