@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-16 03:08:00
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-15 16:32:39
1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2025-08-15 06:51:32
Mein ganz persönlicher Blick auf die Blogkultur 2025. Ich schreibe für mich – und um gelesen zu werden. Doch viele Freunde und Babyboomer antworten lieber auf Facebook als hier im Blog. Also gehe ich den Spagat ein. Trotz Zuckerberg. #Blogwochen2025
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-15 00:05:45
Facebook removes Chicago-area page dedicated to ICE sightings after Justice Department intervenes (Lauryn Azu/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/facebook-removes-chicago-ice-watch-page/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p147#a251014p147
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-08-16 20:04:49
ETERNITY
#Photography
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-10-13 13:00:06
facebook_wall: Facebook wall posts (2009)
Friendship relationships and interactions (wall posts) for a subset of the Facebook social network in 2009, recorded over a 2 year period. Edge directed edge represents a post by one user on another user's FB wall.
This network has 46952 nodes and 876993 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Temporal, Multigraph
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-15 16:40:43
2/2 I continued blogging Alberniweather and on FB and Twitter but I gradually removed my personal self from Facebook and eventually during the Pandemic, I decided the Facebook environment was just too toxic even for weather stuff and I shut down my page and left Facebook completely.
The impact on traffic to Alberniweather.ca and its prominence in the community was, and still is, significant.
I have diehard followers, many who have become friends over the years, I still get the odd call from media, or even the public about random weather things.
I have good connections with a few folks at Environment Canada (though their staff have become thinner and more transient :(
and major events still get spikes of local traffic but I since about 2022, and after I removed myself from Twitter that year, I don’t blog nearly as much. I would do a few posts in a week, and then go months without posting. I just got out of the habit I guess.
But I am still interested in the weather. I still feel like Alberniweather is a useful service for people in my community. I still feel a willing obligation to inform people about the weather and I believe I am trusted to do so by the public and local leaders. I’ve never made any money at it, I sold ad space on the website for a few years but it wasn’t worth the hassle and I didn’t feel comfortable taking the money when I was councillor. I have had some generous spontaneous donations at times.
But mainly I do it because it’s interesting, and I hope it is useful for people especially when people are looking for information during a major event.
The highest traffic I have ever had on Alberniweather pre-FB exit was the local Dog Mountain forest fire in 2015.
post-FB exit: the #underwoodfire
People want easy access to reliable local, trusted, information.
Large media orgs have mostly given up on this.
I am grateful we still have an active local newspaper and radio and that both trust me and I trust them.
@… @…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-16 04:18:00
Donnerstag: Deutsches Flugtaxi-Start-up am Ende, KI-Rechenzentren mit ARM-Chips
Ausverkauf beim Flugtaxi-Pionier KI auf ARM-Basis für Facebook und Instagram Waymo-Robotaxis bald in London Bitcoin-Jesus entgeht Haftstrafe #heiseshow
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2025-10-14 14:00:12
Hören Facebook und Instagram heimlich mit? Müssen sie gar nicht. Die Apps sammeln ständig Klick- und Scrolling-Daten, um Werbung zu platzieren. Algorithmen nutzen nur unsere Interaktionen. Die echte Überwachung? Wir liefern sie selbst – durch jeden Like und jeden Scroll. Ironisch: Datenschutz endet, wo Bequemlichkeit beginnt. #Mimikama
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-15 07:39:48
Bei dieser Nachricht verschluckt sich jeder Italien-Urlauber am Aperol Spritz 😱: Ein massiver Datendiebstahl beschäftigt gerade die Hotelbranche in Italien.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10521928?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastod…
