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","summary":"\"When such power is concentrated in the hands of a few, it tends to become opaque and evade public oversight, [giving] rise to new dependencies, exclusions, manipulations and inequalities.\"","url":"https://werd.io/the-pope-used-his-first-encyclical-to-warn-about-tech-centralization/","date_published":"2026-05-25T13:12:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Werdmuller","url":"http://werd.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenwerd%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benwerd"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-25 13:12","date_timestamp":1779714721,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90722370","content_html":"Affordances for me, but not for thee: werd.io
","summary":"For years, people have tried hard to get websites to build accessibility affordances. Now developers are willingly building them for AI.","url":"https://werd.io/affordances-for-me-but-not-for-thee/","date_published":"2026-05-22T14:00:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Werdmuller","url":"http://werd.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenwerd%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benwerd"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-22 14:00","date_timestamp":1779458439,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90671588","content_html":"Like sunrise over a sink: werd.io
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","summary":"Every day for 25 years, Stephen Downes has written about edtech, informing an entire industry.","url":"https://werd.io/a-quarter-of-a-century-of-open-educational-technology/","date_published":"2026-05-16T16:29:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Werdmuller","url":"http://werd.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenwerd%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benwerd"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-16 16:29","date_timestamp":1778948993,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90273272","content_html":"Notable links: May 15, 2026: werd.io
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","summary":"\"If there were a dictator of the internet who intentionally set out to destroy your ability to get accurate information, the result would look a lot like what’s already on your screen. But why?\"","url":"https://werd.io/asking-platforms-to-do-better-wont-work-we-need-to-force-their-hands/","date_published":"2026-05-11T14:31:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Werdmuller","url":"http://werd.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenwerd%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benwerd"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-11 14:31","date_timestamp":1778509911,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89994243","content_html":"WordPress powers 47% of the web. Now it's more social, too: werd.io
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","summary":"\"Journalists, cultural workers, content creators, and other trusted messengers are enabling better civic insight for communities. How do we economically support the civic information future that society needs?\"","url":"https://werd.io/plugging-the-gaps-wont-save-news-its-time-to-redesign/","date_published":"2026-05-07T13:50:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Werdmuller","url":"http://werd.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenwerd%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benwerd"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-07 13:50","date_timestamp":1778161849,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89514858","content_html":"The way to save news is not to create monopolistic monocultures: werd.io
","summary":"\"Why, a funder asked me recently, do two intermediaries this funder saw as offering duplicative services both still exist? Because you—and your funder colleagues—let them, I said.\" But consolidation is a dangerous road.","url":"https://werd.io/the-way-to-save-news-is-not-to-create-monopolistic-monocultures/","date_published":"2026-05-03T15:00:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Werdmuller","url":"http://werd.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenwerd%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benwerd"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-03 15:00","date_timestamp":1777820429,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89458098","content_html":"Open source maintainers need to go in with open eyes: werd.io
","summary":"\"To labour out of love, and to choose to share their work freely in a market society, OSS developers find themselves in a position where they are vulnerable to exploitation and harm.\"","url":"https://werd.io/open-source-maintainers-need-to-go-in-with-open-eyes/","date_published":"2026-05-02T14:55:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Werdmuller","url":"http://werd.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenwerd%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benwerd"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-02 14:55","date_timestamp":1777733700,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89386775","content_html":"Claude Opus can now identify an author from their writing: werd.io
","summary":"\"AI only needs 150 words to identify me. What does that mean for you?\"","url":"https://werd.io/claude-opus-can-now-confidently-identify-an-author-from-their-writing/","date_published":"2026-05-01T13:32:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Werdmuller","url":"http://werd.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenwerd%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benwerd"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-01 13:32","date_timestamp":1777642323,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89386774","content_html":"Notable links: May 1, 2026: werd.io
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","summary":"When open source becomes a bureaucracy, it stops being able to innovate. For a product, that can mean death.","url":"https://werd.io/matt-mullenweg-thinks-wordpress-is-in-decline-he-may-be-right/","date_published":"2026-04-30T14:33:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Werdmuller","url":"http://werd.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenwerd%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benwerd"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-30 14:33","date_timestamp":1777559583,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89316385","content_html":"Product-shaped or movement-shaped? werd.io
","summary":"People love your work because of its impact, not how it works.","url":"https://werd.io/product-shaped-or-movement-shaped/","date_published":"2026-04-30T13:20:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Werdmuller","url":"http://werd.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenwerd%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benwerd"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-30 13:20","date_timestamp":1777555220,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89277030","content_html":"Building with love, and paying for it: werd.io
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","summary":"\"Apple’s fix means iPhones should no longer save copies of deleted messages from Signal or other apps, and Apple said the patch also purges already saved and related notifications.\"","url":"https://werd.io/that-terrible-signal-exploit-has-been-fixed-we-have-journalism-to-thank-for-it/","date_published":"2026-04-29T14:00:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Werdmuller","url":"http://werd.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenwerd%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benwerd"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-29 14:00","date_timestamp":1777471257,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89104629","content_html":"All You Fascists (Bound to Lose): werd.io
","summary":"A collection of Woody Guthrie covers","url":"https://werd.io/all-you-fascists-bound-to-lose/","date_published":"2026-04-27T13:39:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Werdmuller","url":"http://werd.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenwerd%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benwerd"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-27 13:39","date_timestamp":1777297172,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"68933258","content_html":"@werd.io Point taken! It had a very good run. Unfortunately it didn’t run for 34 years for us, so I’ve only known it during its finickety later years.
\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:77tdak46psveqneyegsdyc7l/post/3ltsj75oyp22q","date_published":"2025-07-12T23:28:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Werdmuller","url":"http://werd.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenwerd%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benwerd"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-12 23:28","date_timestamp":1752362934,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"68933259","content_html":"@werd.io You’re right, it was probably an amazing fridge back when Blossom was on TV. It is, however, past the end of its life.
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