Amy Hoy: the chronologically organized web is “a decent servant but a terrible master”

Amy Hoy writes about how the style of chronologically organized, stream updates for websites swallowed up the entire web: "...the damn reverse chronology bias — once called into creation, it hungers eternally — sought its next victim. Myspace. Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. Pinterest, of all things. Today these social publishing tools are beginning to buck reverse chronological sort;…

Christopher Wylie: Privacy rights threatened by Cambridge Analytica’s “grossly unethical experiments”

"It allowed us to move into the hearts and minds of American voters in a way that had never been done before."

Does the Web need a new abstraction?

"I wonder whether we're approaching the next opportunity for an abstraction to slice through the complexity, to recategorize what we build in ways that make it easier to see what happens and why." – Simon St. Laurent (LinkedIn) Related reading:  Designing Themes with Gutenberg Blocks and Sketch (Theme Shaper) Universe, an Instagram for building mobile…

WSJ: Google wanted to find out why so many phones were jammed. The answer involved flowers and sunsets.

"Google researchers in Silicon Valley were trying to figure out why so many smartphones were freezing up half a world away. One in three smartphone users in India run out of space on their phones daily."