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delauguston Maintenance Futures

Future visions tend to organize around narratives of gain or loss, dystopia or utopia. But what of the neutral position?

delauguston The National Design Studio is a scam

envy isn't necessary for legitimate critique you know

delauguston The National Design Studio is a scam

I still see it on the New list.

delauguston Why Embodied AI Is the Red Line We Cannot Cross

I'm not sure if you've read the AI 2027 report, but that's what this post is responding to. It's not the author anthropomorphizing AI. That's the entire premise of the AI 2027 forecast.

delauguston Personal Ambient Computing

Agreed. PAC isn't really a new idea at its core. I think the author says that directly. But it's also an idea that hasn't really been tried with the tech available. The promise really depends upon minimizing computing power, making it more contextual, and piggybacking on 3d printing to create open-source enclosures.

delauguston Digital Reality, Digital Shock: Growing Up at the Dawn of Cyberspace

"a Prestel [2] terminal" amazing reference!

delauguston Digital Reality, Digital Shock: Growing Up at the Dawn of Cyberspace

I love it when I end up on a website that is clearly 100% bespoke and weird.

delauguston Digital Reality, Digital Shock: Growing Up at the Dawn of Cyberspace

Absolutely!

delauguston The Exodus

Why designers and marketers are leaving the field.

delauguston SEO, Clickless Search, and the AInternet

Absolutely. I attended a webinar yesterday on SEO/content marketing from a very well-known/established SEO "expert" and it was shockingly 101. However, one detail I did appreciate was hearing how long-term the standard inbound, organic content strategy is. Many have said this for years, but they showed some good data to really hammer home the point, folding in the reality that AI content farms make it all the more difficult. The other tiny detail that came up that was useful was seeing data emphasizing how counterproductive dating content is – the further away the present date is from the content, the least likely it is to be indexed and/or ranked. The advice I'd heard until this point was to update and republish content. This webinar showed data proving that publishing dateless content outperforms that approach.

delauguston SEO, Clickless Search, and the AInternet

100%

It's astonishing to me how many SEO consultants are still selling (and getting contracts for) 10-year-old advice.

delauguston The Internet Isn't for Humans Anymore

This is a great point, as far as the understanding of "bot" is concerned. Although I think the overall point is that the bots create an algorithmic determinism toward information.

delauguston Want to Resist? Delete Your Facebook Account

This was excellent.