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Month: October 2017
A few things for the new office…
👓 MOOCs Are "Dead." What's Next? Uh-oh. | InsideHigherEd
One overhyped technology fades as another surges.
👓 Google will permanently disable a control on its new $50 speaker after the gadget listened in on some users | Business Insider
Google Home Mini is losing the ability to use it by touching the button on the top, after a reviewer raised concerns that it was recording without his consent.
📖 Read pages 39-62 of Abstract Algebra: An Introduction by Thomas W. Hungerford
📖 Read pages 39-62 of Abstract Algebra: An Introduction (First Edition) by Thomas W. Hungerford
Chapter 3: Rings, Sections 1 and 2
Chapter 3: Rings, Sections 1 and 2
Reviewing over some algebra for my algebraic geometry class
📺 The Decentralized Social Web | Keith J. Grant | recallact.com
We tend to have a love/hate relationship with social networks. The ability to interact with friends, colleagues, and even celebrities is wonderful, but the lack of control over privacy or content algorithms is troubling. A better way lies ahead, where you aren't tied to large social networks and where you can own your own data.
📺 The Decentralized Social Web by Keith J. Grant
We tend to have a love/hate relationship with social networks. The ability to interact with friends, colleagues, and even celebrities is wonderful, but the lack of control over privacy or content algorithms is troubling. A better way lies ahead, where you aren't tied to large social networks and where you can own your own data. Recorded at Atlanta Connect.Tech 2017 on 9/21/2017
https://player.vimeo.com/video/237349014
A few weeks back Keith gave a great non-platform specific overview to some of the moving pieces of the IndieWeb at Connect.Tech 2017 in Atlanta. I wish I could have been there in person, but glad that it was archived on video for posterity.
Somehow I managed to get a mention in his talk as did our friend Jeremy Cherfas.
The slides for his talk are archived, naturally, on his own website.
👓 Thinking about bookmarks and likes on the IndieWeb | Seblog
Sebastiaan Andeweg (seblog.nl)At Virtual HWC last week, Sven Knebel pointed me to the new Firefox beta. I use it now, and one of the things I noticed is that ships with integration with Pocket, a bookmarking service to save articles you want to read later. It’s owned by Mozilla now, so they accentuate their service by adding a...
Checkin 76
There’s a little bit of haze today, but it’s warming up in the sunshine.
Checkin City of Pasadena Schoolhouse Garage
Odd to say but I really like this garage…
Checkin Cross Campus Pasadena
Checkin The Container Store
Showrooming for ideas
As part of Bryan Alexander’s online book club, I’ve recalled that GoodReads.com allows users with linked Amazon accounts to make their Kindle highlights and notes publicly available. Though I expect that I’ll post most/all of them here on my site over time, I thought I’d still add a link to my highlights and annotations for Weapons for Math Destruction here and use this as a reminder to others in the group who might want to take advantage of this functionality as well.
Details on the functionality can be found at Share Your Kindle Notes and Highlights with Your Friends (Beta).
👓 Twitter CEO promises to crack down on hate, violence and harassment with “more aggressive” rules | Tech Crunch
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took to…Twitter today to promise a “more aggressive” stance in its rules and how it enforces them. The tweet storm was based in a response to the #WomenBoycottTwitter protest, as well as work that Dorsey says Twitter has been working ‘intensely’ on over the past few months. Dorsey says that critical decisions were made today in how to go about preventing the rampant and vicious harassment many women, minorities and other users undergo daily on the platform. “We decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them,” Dorsey says. “New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence. These changes will start rolling out in the next few weeks. More to share next week.”
I don’t have very high hopes for the climate changing on this issue though I did participate in the Twitter boycott today.
👓 Towards a more democratic Web | Tara Vancil
Many people who have suffered harassment on Twitter (largely women), are understandably fed up with Twitter’s practices, and have staged a boycott of Twitter today October 13, 2017. Presumably the goal is to highlight the flaws in Twitter’s moderation policies, and to push the company to make meaningful changes in their policies, but I’d like to argue that we shouldn’t expect Twitter’s policies to change.
I think I believe Tara when she says about Twitter:
It’s not going to get better.
I think there are a lot of people, including myself, who also think like she does here:
I want online media to work much more like a democracy, where users are empowered to decide what their experience is like.
The difference for her is that she’s actively building something to attempt to make things better not only for herself, but for others. This is tremendously laudable.
I’d heard of her project Beaker and Mastodon before, but hadn’t heard anything before about Patchwork, which sounds rather interesting.
h/t Richard Eriksson for highlighting this article on Reading.am though I would have come across it tomorrow morning likely in my own feed reader.