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Month: March 2019
👓 PressED conference 2019
A WordPress Conference about education on Twitter
👓 Second Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Census Citizenship Question Plans | NPR
A second federal judge has issued a court ruling against the administration's plans to ask whether every person living in the country is a U.S. citizen in the 2020 census.
👓 Mario Batali officially out at all 16 of his restaurants, including Mozzaplex in L.A. | LA Times
The celebrity chef, who has been accused of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct spanning at least two decades, no longer has a financial stake in his former restaurant empire.
👓 The Myth of Law School Prestige | Andy Brink – Medium
Why you should ditch the rankings, stop worrying about the “best” law school, and focus on these 10 factors instead
There’s some pretty solid advice hiding in here. To a broad extent, I think he’s largely right on making sure you’re looking at many of the other factors which are far more important than just rank/prestige.
🎧 The Daily: The American Women Who Joined ISIS | New York Times
They traveled to Syria, swore loyalty to the Islamic State and married its fighters. Now, as the extremist group’s “caliphate” crumbles, they’re asking to come home.
What a painful culture shock it must have been for women to go from America to ISIS held territory.
I can only think that given the terrorism that they experienced and their mindsets as depicted here that they ought to be treated more like brainwashed ex-cult members than enemy combatants. Of course this also means that they should certainly be getting the appropriate mental health care after the fact as well.
I have to wonder whether they would have gone if they’d even spent a little bit of time thinking about the long term consequences.
🎧 The Daily: Why Controlling 5G Could Mean Controlling the World | New York Times
In the race to dominate the next generation of cellular networks, both the United States and China know there’s much more at stake than ultrafast internet.
Some great thought and analysis here about the coming issues with world wide communication networks.
📺 Tantek Çelik on “Why We Need the IndieWeb” at Personal Democracy Forum 2014 #PDF14 | YouTube
Tantek Çelik from YouTubeTantek Çelik at Personal Democracy Forum 2014
A great, short 13 minute video for the IndieWeb.
📺 Taking Back The Web | Jeremy Keith | Webstock ’18
In these times of centralised services like Facebook, Twitter, and Medium, having your own website is downright disruptive. If you care about the longevity of your online presence, independent publishing is the way to go. But how can you get all the benefits of those third-party services while still owning your own data? By using the building blocks of the Indie Web, that’s how!
Presentation slide-deck: speakerdeck.com/adactio/taking-back-the-web
Larry Sanger (Twitter)What’s the best video for learning about IndieWeb?
— Larry Sanger (@lsanger) March 7, 2019
Larry, there are a large number of videos about the IndieWeb available. I’ll make a few recommendations from the broadest and shortest to the most specific and longer given what I suspect about you and your background.
This short 13 minute video Why We Need the IndieWeb by Tantek Çelik from 2014 has some of the best background, history, and broad philosophy.
A longer version of this video with more detail is his The once and future IndieWeb.
Since I’m sure you’re aware of much of the history and some of the problems (though who couldn’t use a good reveiw), you may want to start with more practical concerns and for this there are several, roughly equivalent videos by Jeremy Keith that would be an excellent overview for you including Taking Back The Web (Webstock ‘18):
The following are similar, but excellent as well: Taking Back the Web and Building Blocks of the IndieWeb.
And finally, bringing things closest to home for you and potentially applying these pieces to a WordPress site, knowing that is what you use, I’ve got a (less exciting and more didactic) video Setting up WordPress for IndieWeb Use that walks through adding all of these pieces to a WordPress site in a step-by-step manner.
Please let me know if I can be of further help.
📺 What is the IndieWeb? | Aaron Parecki | YouTube
Aaron Parecki from YouTube👓 I’m working on improving my content p… | Jacky Alciné
Jacky Alciné (v2.jacky.wtf)I’m working on improving my content processing for my site. The focus is around making more “magic” happen on the fly for me. I should have mentions, auto tagging and emoji to HTML entity conversion ready soon. The one thing that I am sorely missing is the ability to address a group. And the more I think on it, the more I realize that intrinsically this might be something that requires a bit of coordination. My current plan of attack is to define a page that tags a bunch of people (or entities) and use that in a similar fashion to a person-tag. This would require that when a group page receives a reply from someone in that (public) group, they would get Webmentions as well. The page would serve as a pass through. This works for private messages cleanly. However, if you wanted to have a private group, the request to said group would have to be authenticated somehow. That part I haven’t figured out as of yet.
For now, my person tags and what not will be just fine!
Jacky Alciné (v2.jacky.wtf)I’m working on improving my content processing for my site. The focus is around making more “magic” happen on the fly for me. I should have mentions, auto tagging and emoji to HTML entity conversion ready soon. The one thing that I am sorely missing is the ability to address a group. And the m...
👓 Week 1 of the Framework Annotation event begins today | gardnercampbell.net
In the spring of 2004, I read these words for the first time: We do not speak of isolated clever tricks that help in particular situations. We refer to a way of life in an integrated domain where h…
👓 Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files | Gizmodo
When it comes to their stuff, people often have a hard time letting go. When the object of their obsession are rooms full of old clothes or newspapers, it can be unhealthy—even dangerous. But what about a stash that fits on 10 5-inch hard drives?
Some interesting resources here…