Scott Mallinson

Google is giving up some control of the AMP format by Dieter Bohn (The Verge) Sending the project to committee

RevAMP. — ethanmarcotte.com (ethanmarcotte.com) Google’s Accelerated Mobile Project (AMP) has announced it’s moving to a more open governance model, which is great. I still have some questions.

Tech in Asia – Connecting Asia’s startup ecosystem (techinasia.com)

Cloudflare goes InterPlanetary – Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway (The Cloudflare Blog) Today we’re excited to introduce Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway, an easy way to access content from the the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) that doesn’t require installing and running any special software on your computer.

What is ActivityPub, and how will it change the internet? by Jeremy (Jeremy Dormitzer) A new kind of social network There’s a new social network in town. It’s called Mastodon. You might have even heard of it. On the surface, Mastodon feels a lot like Twitter: you post “toots” up to 500 characters; you follow…

Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back. by Cory Doctorow (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship…

Taking back control of my digital life – Timo Zimmermann by Timo Zimmermann (screamingatmyscreen.com)

Google Is Handing the Future of the Internet to China by Suzanne Nossel (Foreign Policy) The company has been quietly collaborating with the Chinese government on a new, censored search engine—and abandoning its own ideals in the process.

EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ by James Vincent (The Verge) Those in favor say they’re fighting for content creators, but critics say the new laws will be ‘catastrophic’