Month: December 2019
Mr. Peanut (Twitter)Silent nut. Holy nut.
— Mr. Peanut (@MrPeanut) December 26, 2019
This is sort of hilarious.
Kicks Condor (Kicks Condor)Fraidycat 1.0.7 is out (in the browser and on desktop), major performance improvements.
fluffy (beesbuzz.biz)
I remember running across Serendeputy just around IndieWebSummit. I wonder how something like this that’s built for the open web might support discovery methods for the IndieWeb? Is there a way to dovetail it with Microsub services somehow?
Jason Butler has an interesting looking product.
Watch out: 2019 is sneaking in some last kicks to the crotch before it’s done. Overdrive, the leading provider of ebooks to public libraries, is being sold by Rakuten to the investment firm which “bought and bankrupted” Toys R Us.
Apparently today I sent my 10,000th tweet.
With syndication from my own website, this will make 10,0001.
A pain point of the IndieWeb is that it's sometimes not as convenient to share content as it is on the common social media platforms. Let's improve that.
This sounds a lot like some of the bookmarklet tools that I use for my WordPress website. Kudos to Max for making it easier for those with static sites!
Colin Walker (colinwalker.blog)Last night I read BSAG's post "Listening for the return of spring" in which she outlines an almost irrational fear of never hearing birdsong again: "...part of my difficulty in expressing how I felt was that I was deeply embarrassed about admitting to these fears. It seemed to me a ridiculously arch...
Jay Rosen (PressThink)That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it.
I keep saying that anyone who has Kellyanne Conway or her ilk on their airwaves is actively suborning perjury in the public commons. Kudos to Jay Rosen on this excellent piece.
It’s honestly hard to believe that even Christianity Today seems to have come around on some of the truth of what is happening before Chuck Todd has.
I’m glad that at least Chuck Todd knows/understands what is happening now and may change course to help protect it. Perhaps he needs to spend a few days with George Lakoff to attempt an intervention and a solution?
Looking back at our history of reportage of white power/white nationalism will provide some additional immediate ideas. WNYC’s On the Media has had some great material in the last few years on these topics:
- Face the Racist Nation
- How should the media cover America’s racist extremists?
- Hating In Plain Sight
- Axis Journalism
One might suggest, “just replace the word ‘racist’ with ‘Republicans'” in these stories, but I think many of them have generally done that for themselves already.
My newest IndieWeb desire: The ability to watch and simultaneously screencapture, gif-ify, and otherwise live note a movie with commentary and quotes on my website (roughly in real time without distracting from it too much) the way Bix has done with The Desk Set on Twitter. I’d love to do it as a running collection perhaps. Maybe not too dis-similarly to the way that ThreadReader app presents it.
Do any television sets do automated screencaptures or gifs yet? And can anyone post from a television set to their website? Where is the micropub client for that? I want to see movie reviews like this. Film Threat perhaps?
Marty’s app Kapowski is maybe a start for this? I used to have a DVD tool on my computer that would do screencaptures relatively easy, but who has those anymore? Anyone else have ideas?
It’s drizzling down here, but 4,683 feet up (and a scant 4.167 miles from the front door) it’s snowing!
The view from the webcam on the 9th floor of the Caltech Millikan library about 4.8 miles in the other direction.
Weather graphs for Mount Wilson today indicating a temperature of 29 degrees F.
A view of snowy evergreen trees from Mount Wilson’s web cam.
A web cam image partially occluded by snow build up, but with a snow covered Wilson Observatory in view.
Mount Wilson elevation: 5,713 ft
My elevation: 1030 ft
With Sandi Toksvig, Noel Fielding, Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith. It's biscuit week and Paul and Prue set the remaining 11 bakers three new challenges.