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Month: March 2019
👓 UC terminates subscriptions with world’s largest scientific publisher in push for open access to publicly funded research | University of California | Office of the President
As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. Despite months of contract negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to meet UC’s key goal: securing universal open access to UC research while containing the rapidly escalating costs associated with for-profit journals.
Now if only we could get them to all go IndieWeb using a Domain of Their Own and practice academic samizdat…
📺 Brexit III: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) | YouTube
The UK could officially leave the European Union next month, which would be a huge change with hugely damaging consequences.
📺 Mike Pence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) | YouTube
Mike Pence is much more unlikable than his pet rabbit who stars in a new children's book created by the Pence family and in a better children's book created by us. To purchase our book, visit: www.betterbundobook.com
📺 Multilevel Marketing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) | YouTube
Multilevel marketing companies claim to be legitimate businesses, but some seem awfully…pyramid shaped. John Oliver and Jaime Camil demonstrate how they work.
🎵 Blackbird by The Beatles
Still needs a bit of work. Wish that Alexa could send URL links as part of it’s data load.
Not sure if I’ll do this frequently…
👓 The next ten years of Instapaper | Instapaper
This year Instapaper celebrated its tenth birthday and, now that we are an independent company, we’ve been thinking a lot about the next ten years of Instapaper and...
👓 Thinking about Bridging | David Shanske
I am writing this post on my phone, which is a challenge in itself. But at Indiewebcamp Austin this past weekend, I was trying to explain the realization that I had back at the Summit in June. Bridgy, the prime example of that, was launched in Indieweb form in December 2013. It creates a bridge betw...
👓 XYZ March 2019 | Kicks Condor
So, as a result of the work Chris has been doing in Wordpress, making it easier to post to Indieweb.xyz, I’ve started “rolling up” all the posts by each user on the home page. I’m just trying this to see how it feels. I’m going to try quite a lot of things over the next few months. Let me know what works for you.
📺 Evening News 03-01-2019 | CBS 2 Los Angeles
👓 Notes from the Rep Biz – 2-22-2019 | WhoRepresents.com
👓 ‘Empire’ Star Jussie Smollett Signs With CAA | Hollywood Reporter
The singing and acting breakout was previously without an agency.