Meta just launched their Twitter competitor, branded as "Threads." While it doesn't have ActivityPub support yet, Meta has announced their plans to add ActivityPub support soon. ActivityPub is the standard protocol used by Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube and other fediverse apps. ActivityPub support would allow Threads users to interact with other fediverse users.

When running a lengthy computation, it's considered good practice to provide an indication of progress to the user. This can be surprisingly difficult in client-side JavaScript, even with modern ECMAScript features like Promises and async/await. The difficulty arises with continuously-running computations. Such computations block the event loop and typically prevent the browser from updating the DOM. Which means, any progress indicators updated in the DOM will not be visible until the computation has completed. And that kind of defeats the purpose of progress indicators.

As groups grow in size, participatory decision-making becomes difficult. Can online platforms make it easier for large groups to deliberate and reach consensus?

This is a liveblog taken at the University of Michigan School of Information on September 19, 2018. Any mistakes are my own.

Edward Sanders
with Kentaro Toyama
Information Alliance for Community Development

Sanders entered prison in 1975, at age 17. Convicted of first degree murder as an accessory to murder and sentenced to life.

This is a liveblog taken on 17 September 2018. Apologies for any inaccuracies

Jessica Rosenworcel, FCC Commissioner
Jack Bernard, Associate General Counsel, University of Michigan

Bernard: What is the FCC?

Rosenworcel: FCC oversees 1/6 of US economy.

Bernard: How does the FCC interact with the internet?

Rosenworcel: FCC authority lies with transmission: where there's a wire in the ground or a transmission in the air.

Bernard: Talked to campus community about NN. There is a wide range of views on what NN is. What is it?