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  • Scroll Your Own Way*

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    *with apologies to Fleetwood Mac Scrolling is a tool of our current digital existence, no matter how much we dislike our dependence on it. This is because most people are scrolling on an app platform where they have little control on the content they see. …

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  • A Better Way

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    Do I miss Twitter or Facebook? No. I make better use of my time by following blogs and websites via RSS.

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  • My Way

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    I pay a web host for my personal website, my private emails, RSS, and photo services. I pay to support the products I enjoy using and that promise to not collect or sell my information. If it’s “free” than I don’t want it.

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  • The Internet Is Broken

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    Anyone else noticed that today’s WWW is insufferable? I don’t specifically know when it turned, or why most users became jerks, but I’ll go ahead and guess about 2010. Making money off of content became more important than the content itself. This is a long…

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  • Digital Essentialism

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    How is your digital life? Feeling overwhelmed by all the clutter in your inbox, hard drive and cloud service? I know I was. Though I consider myself to be a minimalist essentialist, there does come a time when I get lazy and the discipline slides.…

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  • Aggregate Your News

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    One of the pillars of the internet , next to e-mail, is the personal, humble blog. You know, the social internet, not social media. Creators, writers, photographers, video hosts, and podcasters all need to put their works on a site that they own and fully…

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