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  • Discover scottmallinson’s listening stats for Last.year (Last.fm)

    Check out scottmallinson’s 2022 in music on Last.fm

    • 10,099 scrobbles
    • 3,503 albums
    • 38% new artists
    • 67% new albums
    • 58% new tracks
    • 27 days, 11 hours listening time
    • 28 average daily scrobbles

    Sadly general listening stats are down compared to 2021. That needs rectifying.

  • Code Stats for 2022 (wakatime.com)
    • 581 hours coded
    • 3 hrs 2 mins daily average
    • Top languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, and Gherkin
  • China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real by Jamie Horsley (Foreign Policy)

    Blacklists and monitoring systems are nowhere close to Black Mirror fantasies.

  • At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges (nytimes.com)

    The World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China, has long showcased flashy new tech. This year, discussions also dealt with counterterrorism, data breaches and surveillance.

  • China’s state-run press agency has created an ‘AI anchor’ to read the news by James Vincent (The Verge)

    But the agency’s new host isn’t any more sophisticated than a CGI puppet

  • How MTV Alumni Came to Rule Digital Media by Jessica Toonkel (The Information)

    MTV is trying to re-establish itself as the network for millennials. What would help is if it could hire back just a few of the many executives it has lost over the past decade to internet firms like Facebook, Spotify and YouTube.Perhaps more than any other TV network, MTV has been a hunting …

  • A Contract for the Web (A Contract for the Web)

    The web was designed to bring people together and make knowledge freely available. Everyone has a role to play to ensure the web serves humanity. By committing to the following principles, governments, companies and citizens around the world can help protect the open web as a public good and a basic right for everyone.

    A great idea, but when companies such as Google and in particular, Facebook, are listed as supporters you have to wonder if they really intend to develop technologies that support the best in humanity and challenge the worst.

  • Designing, laws, and attitudes. — ethanmarcotte.com (ethanmarcotte.com)

    What would happen if the law required us to design fast websites?

  • The business value of design (McKinsey & Company)

    How do the best performers increase their revenues and shareholder returns at nearly twice the rate of their industry counterparts? The value of design comes from top management rigor, company-wide teamwork, rapid iteration, and relentless user-centricity.

  • We Need to Have an Honest Talk About Our Data (WIRED)

    VR pioneer Jaron Lanier talks with WIRED about why the original architecture of the internet forced us into a kind of information trickery, and how we can fix it—to everyone’s benefit.