Free and open source software

New buzz in town: “The promises and problems of Mastodon, a Twitter alternative” #mastodonsocial

by

Mastodon – like Twitter, without Nazis Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder Sarah Jeong of Motherboard says Mastodon is a “kinder, nicer, decentralized open source version of Twitter.” I hope she’s right! (I’m frauenfelder at Mastodon.cloud.) The promises and problems of Mastodon, a Twitter alternative Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder Intrigued by Mastodon, a new open-source alternative to … Read more

Journalism agenda: The Guardian works on Grid, an open-source image management system…

by

Top 10 Media Publishers for July 2015: Complex Growing, BuzzFeed Keeps Stronghold  All Facebook Tinypass and Piano Media merge, and embrace “paywall” as a fluid concept  Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen There’s more consolidation in the paywall platform business: Tinypass and Piano Media announced Tuesday that they are merging into a single company, Piano, which … Read more