👓 Thinking about Bridging | David Shanske

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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...

👓 The next ten years of Instapaper | Instapaper

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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...

📺 Multilevel Marketing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) | YouTube

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Multilevel marketing companies claim to be legitimate businesses, but some seem awfully…pyramid shaped. John Oliver and Jaime Camil demonstrate how they work.

The garage portion is just so painfully sad. I remember a dozen women in my Facebook feed over a year ago pushing Rodan & Fields. I wonder what happened to them?

📺 Mike Pence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) | YouTube

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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

👓 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

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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.
This is some crazy bad-ass news. Almost everyone I know in higher education tweeted this article out today.

Now if only we could get them to all go IndieWeb using a Domain of Their Own and practice academic samizdat

👓 The ineffectiveness of lonely icons | Matt Wilcox

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If your target audience is a general population, you should not be using icons alone to convey anything meaningful. By doing so, you have made assumptions that are unlikely to be appropriate to a general audience.
Hat tip Brad Frost