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JournoDAO Weekly: Our First Meet and Greet
• 1 min read As I type this, various members of the DAO are traveling to LA for the Online News Association's yearly conference. I'll be joining them shortly. Our talk is on Thursday (tomorrow) and we'll post it in the next update if it's recorded and made available: Even if Web3 Is Full of Scams, the Part That Isn’t Might Just Change Everything And on Friday, for the first time ever, we'll be assembling a public meetup for DAO members and curious folks in the area.
JournoDAO Weekly: Onboarding the Curious to Web3
The big news of the week is our presence at Media Party in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Our own Eric Mack is representing us and running several events during the self-proclaimed "most important media innovation conference in all of Latin America." Eric's report from the first day was very positive. We're getting a lot more interest than expected and we expect to see some of the people he met with show up in the Discord and town halls in the coming weeks.
Re-Public Weekly: Is Apple Helping or Hurting?
Someone posted a Twitter thread this week that claims that Apple's anti-tracking and privacy changes hurt small businesses that rely on targeting to reach customers. Without this tracking, revenue goes down and, in extreme cases, the businesses have to close. (Thanks to quixado for the tip.) Small businesses are once again are the chew toy of monopolistic practices in both directions.
Absolutely DO NOT Mint Our NFT
What do you get when you mint the new JournoDAO Founder NFT? Nothing. And … well … everything. Founder NFT holders get access to everything JournoDAO has done and will ever do. Events, educational content, airdrops, schwag, private research groups, IRL JournoDAO co-working spaces, our job board, our professional network, our writing services, exclusive NFTs and discounts … the list is endless. And yet, none of that exists. You get NOTHING … right now.
Re-Public Weekly: Coinbase Geo Tracking
While big swaths of the web3 community aspire to give you sovereignty and control over your data, this week we saw how web2 data surveillance will be following us for a while: Coinbase Says It Doesn’t Sell Customer Data After ICE ‘Geo Tracking’ Contract Surfaces The goliath of crypto exchanges says it’s helping the US government investigate financial crime. We're lucky to claim the author of that story, Eric Mack, as one of our members.
Journalism Is for Everyone
You're not a writer, but you still learned how to write. You're not a cook, but you still learned how to make a few dishes. Not only that, but getting better at writing and cooking helps improve your daily life no matter what your profession. Journalism is the same. You don't have to be a journalist to practice and benefit from the skill of journalism. Currently, this is not how we treat journalism. It's ill-defined black magic that some people are able to do and some people aren't.
JournoDAO Moving to Weekly-ish Updates
Now that the DAO is growing, it's no longer possible to get caught up on the goings on just by cruising through chat channels for a few minutes. To that end, we've decided to do a blog post like this one each week to let members and curious outsiders know what's going on. So let's get to it. (Currently feedback must be delivered via Discord or [email protected]. A forum is in the works.
Local Journalism Is the Blockchain Security Model for Politics and Culture
At JournoDAO, we are often asked, “What does journalism have to do with web3 and crypto?” Well, there is actually a deep alignment between the purpose of journalism and the purpose of decentralization and the blockchain consensus model. In blockchain terms, journalists are like network validators. Especially journalists on the local/regional level.
An Apple personal data marketplace could be a gold mine for the masses
News Top stories Apple is the best on privacy, but it's still not close to what we need. Photo: Ash Edmonds/Unsplash Apple should be building a data marketplace for its users, not raising fears about privacy. Privacy is about preventing the leakage of personal data and does nothing about the ownership and monetization of that data. Individuals should be getting paid for their data directly, not the companies that collect that data. And that should be the focus of Apple’s efforts.
Privacy Is Just the First Step, the Goal Is Data Ownership
As soon as you connect to the internet, there is a vast surveillance infrastructure tracking your every move. Even the most hackery of hackers have trouble moving in complete anonymity. For most of us, however, our brains assume our pre-internet intuitions are still accurate. That what we do in our own home stays private until we decide otherwise. We feel violated when we discover how much is known about our online activity.
A Few Simple Steps to Vastly Increase Your Privacy Online
Online privacy is important for everyone, not just tinfoil hat wearers. First, it's more in line with what a user's expectation is when they browse the internet. Not many people understand all the tracking that happens by default. Second, it's more how we operate in real life. You don't have someone following you around from store to store writing down every product you touch or look at, and then block you from entering other stores until you watch an ad.
Software localization isn't an annoying chore, it's a big opportunity for devs
This post is brought to you by MacPaw, maker of Mac app subscription service Setapp. One of the amazing benefits of selling software on the internet is that you can reach customers from all over the world. So why would you cut out a huge potential market just by assuming everyone who wants to use your product speaks English? In fact, ignoring other markets can be one of the biggest marketing oversights software companies make. Let’s quantify the opportunity.
How indie developers can use video to market their apps
This post is brought to you by MacPaw, maker of Setapp. As indie developers, we can get too caught up in how things work — what features our product has, what users can do with it. It often seems like if we can just explain how our product works, everyone will become a devoted user. We spend lots of time pulling together onboarding videos and tutorials.
iPad Photo Mag Shares Revenue With Photographers
There’s no denying it, photos look great on the iPad. So it makes sense that quite a few iPad-only photo magazines are cropping up to take advantage of its lush display and low digital overhead. In particular, we’ve been watching Once Magazine. Over the last few months of its development, we've seen beta versions filled with thoughtful and provocative photo stories. On Oct. 6, the magazine is launching its first paid edition on iTunes for $3.
The Universe Is Programmable. We Need an API for Everything
Think about it like this: In the Book of Genesis, God is the ultimate programmer, creating all of existence in a monster six-day hackathon. Or, if you don't like Biblical metaphors, you can think about it in simpler terms. Robert Moses was a programmer, shaping and re-shaping the layout of New York City for more than 50 years. Drug developers are programmers, twiddling enzymes to cure what ails us.
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