Month: April 2020

Liked a tweet by Tai-Danae Bradley (@math3ma) (Twitter)
Replied to Perhaps, a little more than I can chew? by Steve EllwoodSteve Ellwood (Is This Future Shock?)
Having sorted out my office, and fixed one of my broken NAS, I decided to to look at my website. Moved it to a new theme, and started enabling it for IndieWeb yesterday. Wow. Bit of a hill for an old retired guy! Still, got some mentions working, started working on some syndications stuff, checked I...
Welcome to the independent web! 

Having been doing it for many years now, my advice would be to start slow and take it one thing at time. Slow and steady will definitely help out a lot. 

There’s also a lot out there that you can do, so tinker around a bit, read a bit, and ask yourself: what do I want my site to be able to do? Look at others’ sites: what do you like about them enough to want to build on your own site?

Maybe join us for an upcoming event too? 

Read Thinking About Weather by David ShanskeDavid Shanske (david.shanske.com)
Much to my annoyance, at the end of March, Dark Sky announced it was now part of Apple and was immediately shutting down its Android app and would be shutting down its public API at the end of 2021. So, Dark Sky, my favorite weather service, is going to be dead to me. However, this is not the first ...
Read Simple Location 4.0.6 for WordPress Released by David ShanskeDavid Shanske (david.shanske.com)
Version 4.0.6 of the Simple Location plugin has been released. A lot of the under-the-hood improvements involved the development environment…working on some automations for code testing that I’m going to add to my other projects.  User facing, the following features are now available HERE Maps ...
Watched "Mrs. America" Phyllis from Hulu
Directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck. With Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Uzo Aduba, Elizabeth Banks. Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly considers another run for Congress, amid the women's movement's push for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Interesting to see how painfully sidelined Phyllis Schlafly is here, yet she thinks there’s equality? Very subtly done. 
Watched "Mrs. America" Shirley from Hulu
Directed by Amma Asante. With Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Elizabeth Banks, Kayli Carter. Shirley Chisholm makes a historic run for president, while Gloria struggles to play politics at the DNC. Phyllis takes her new anti-ERA organization national.
Interesting to see someone hang on to everything through the convention with such a small margin. These days candidates fall out with such numbers after the first few states.
Watched "Making the Cut" Digital Marketing Campaign from Amazon Prime
With Tim Gunn, Heidi Klum, Joseph Altuzarra, Troy Arnold. The five remaining designers are challenged to create a two-look collection and a digital marketing campaign. In addition to a fashion show, the designers will have to act as creative directors in a photo shoot with their models. In an epic and rainy fashion show, some of the designers shine, while others get washed out.
Read New ways to learn about web archiving and Archive-It (Archive-It Blog)
We recently highlighted opportunities for partners and peers to learn more about web archiving technology and practices through the Archive-It Advanced Training webinar series–all recorded and available on-demand. As more organizations and communities find web archiving needs though, Internet Archive staff are also introducing new and extended training materials to get them crawling for the first time.
Read The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus (nytimes.com)
Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly. Read some of what they had to say among themselves at critical moments.