The cold war between Facebook and Apple over data use and privacy is heating up. How far should Mr. Cook take it?
Month: February 2019
👓 How the Seattle Times is empowering reporters to drive subscriber growth | Digiday
A successful "mini-publisher" program is helping reporters test product and coverage tweaks designed to help drive consumption and subscriber growth.
👓 Elias M. Stein, Mathematician of Fluctuations, Is Dead at 87 | New York Times
Arriving from Europe with diamonds in his shoes (hidden there), he found renown in his field with real-world applications, like charting a stock market.
How many references to “Diamonds hidden in the soles of shoes” can there be? Suppose this story may have somehow influenced Paul Simon?
A nice overview of some of Stein’s work.
👓 MacKenzie Bezos and the Myth of the Lone Genius Founder | Wired
Even juicy divorce speculation represents a chance to acknowledge how myriad factors—and people—contribute to the success of a company like Amazon.
👓 Why Founders Should Start With a Website, Not a Mobile App | Atrium | Julia Enthoven
When I was a Stanford undergraduate in 2012, everyone seemed to be building apps. The sexiest tech startups—Snap, Uber, Facebook—were almost synonymous with the word “app,” and that the world was moving increasingly towards ?...
There’s a valuable lesson in here and it’s something that a lot of app builders don’t even consider.
👓 Post by Email | WordPress
Post by Email is a way of publishing posts on your blog using your email. Any email client can be used to send the email, allowing you to publish quickly and easily from devices such as cell phones if you don’t have the WordPress mobile app installed. This module can be enabled by switching on “...
👓 A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions | The New Yorker
Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his début thriller, “The Woman in the Window.” His life contains even stranger twists.
I can certainly identify with a lot of this type of behavior. I suspect there are many in the entertainment sector who do this, or something very close to this.
📺 Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature RLST 152 – Lecture 7 – The Gospel of Matthew | Open Yale Courses
The Gospel of Matthew contains some of the most famous passages that both Christians and non-Christians are familiar with. However, Matthew also presents itself paradoxically as preaching a Torah observant Christianity and a Christian mission that seeks to reach gentiles. The figure of Jesus in Matthew is that of a teacher, the founder of the Church, and the model for the apostles and Matthew’s own community. Matthew seems to be writing for a church community that needs encouragement to have faith in a time of trouble.
Lecture Chapters
- Matthew: The Most Famous Gospel [00:00:00]
- Jesus and the Torah in Matthew [00:12:29]
- The Foundations of the Church in Matthew [00:22:08]
- Jesus as a Model for the Disciples [00:27:51]
- The Stilling of the Storm in Matthew [00:35:44]
🔖 The Five Gospels Parallels by John W. Marshall
This HTML presentation of the Five Gospels is designed to be a teaching tool for introductory level classes in New Testament and Christian Origins. For this reason, and because of the particular constraints of HTML, it does not offer the same level of detail as a printed synopsis (i.e. Throckmorton 1979, 1992; Aland 1985). Its advantage is that it allows more "play" than a printed synopsis and that it presents the materials in the same order as the canonical Gospels. Moreover, it offers texts that are not commonly included in the synopses designed for classroom use: Thomas and Paul. Others may follow.
An interesting website, but could use with some additional UI tweaks to make it more interesting/usable. It’s certainly got a lot of the data in place.
🔖 Gospel Parallels: A Comparison of the Synoptic Gospels, New Revised Standard Version by Burton H. Throckmorton, Jr.
A classic since 1949, Gospel Parallels presents Matthew, Mark, and Luke printed side-by-side for easy and enlightening comparative study. Now fully revised and updated using the NRSV, it features a more readable type face and a new, even more effective system for comparison.
🔖 Online Parallel Bible – Compare Bible Verse Versions, Translations
Welcome to the Parallel Study Bible
It is the main intention of our online Parallel Study Bible to allow users to study verses using more than one translation and version. This study tool can help people see how different translators have interpreted the original language.Parallel Bible Word/Phrase Search
To search by word or phrase, enter your query in the search box and choose the two translations you wish to view comparisons for.Parallel Bible Verse/Reference Search
To display a verse or a range of verses, enter the reference into the search box and choose the two translations in which you wish to view comparisons for.
🔖 Bible Verses by Comparison, Read Verses Using All Translations Side by Side
Use Bible Verses by Comparison to read all translations side by side. Study Bible verses using NIV, KJV, ESV, and all versions found on one page.
Testing out Posting to WordPress via email
I haven’t posted to my WordPress site via email in a long time, so I thought I’d give it another try to see what has changed. I’m also curious about how this might work best in an IndieWeb setting and how these pieces dovetail with things like Post Kinds, potential syndication methods, and other tidbits I’ve got set up on my website.
Let’s see how it goes?
👓 PBE: Shortcode to set post format · Issue #240 · Automattic/jetpack | Github
Add a shortcode to the PBE parser to allow author to set Post Format via e-mail. Ported from https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2055 See: 2443-wpcom
Sad that this is marked as wontfix
Testing out posting a note along with IFTTT set up for Post Formats.