I’ve been trying to make small improvements to the Keyring Social Importers package (and People & Places) that I maintain, and have made a number of them over the last few weeks. Here are some details of recent updates which you may have missed: People & Places Improved the labels being used for e...
Author: Chris Aldrich
I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history.
I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.
📖 Read Loc 1-261 of 6508 of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
📖 Read Loc 1-261 of 6508 of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
So you think that you control what you read, watch, and listen to? Better take a closer look…
Many will know and understand the outline of the argument here, but it’s important to read the details of the case studies so we can help break “The Cycle”, an aptly named problem.
In some sense, this is a microcosm of governments over the past 12,000+ years when looked at from a Big History perspective.
Checkin Trader Joe’s
Nice and quiet…
Checkin Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
Dinner with the gang.
Main dining room at Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
The bar at Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
Braised Short Rib with smashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables, and a red wine demi glace.
Cakebread Crab Cakes: Lump and blue crab, red pepper aioli, granny smith apple salad, Champagne vinaigrette.
Old Fashioned with Jameson black and rose water at Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
Custom cocktails at Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
Exterior window
Checkin Palmer Park
🎧 This Week in the Indieweb Audio Edition • March 18th – 24th, 2017
Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb
Thinking about how nice it would be to have stronger text-to-speech transcriptions for podcasts. I was mentioned briefly in this podcast for having bookmarked an article earlier in the week. Webmentions for audio don’t (can’t?) exist, but a transcription would have included my name (and in this case even my URL) which potentially could have sent me a webmention of the fact.
👓 A President’s Credibility | Wall Street Journal
Trump’s falsehoods are eroding public trust, at home and abroad.
👓 How To Score A Hotel Room Upgrade Every Time | Huffington Post
Be courteous, but firm.
🔖 SoundCloud Downloader
SoundCloud Downloader is a simple online tool for downloading any music tracks from SoundCloud. It's free and very easy to use and you get high quality mp3 for any track. Just paste the track page link in URL field above and hit the download button. It extracts the track uri(hosted on SoundCloud's server) from which you can directly download or save the mp3 track in one click. Make sure you paste only one url at a time, in the above input box.
This fits into the same category of scraper as Ryan Barrett‘s tool that extracts audio from video for bookmarking and listening to via Huffduffer.
👓 Indie checkin flow | Ryan Barrett
Ryan Barrett (snarfed.org)Update: I’ve automated this. Here’s my 2015 IndieWeb launch commitment: I’d like to be able to post indie checkins easily, both here and on Facebook. I’d like to use Faceboo…
👓 Feeling underpowered | Jeremy Cherfas
Where to begin?
This is by way of a whinge, and the solution is at least straightforward. Learn how to do what you want to be able to do, dummy.
For a good long while, I've been feeling seriously underpowered when it comes to being able to do what I want to do online. I can't really date the start of it, I just know that I am no longer able to scratch my itches as once I was. That irks me. I know there are professionals and, even more valuably, amateurs who will scratch itches very similar to mine. But they're not my itches, and I'm not scratching them.
👓 But there were people starving in China … | EatThisPodcast
… and the Romans did knead Bread Matters magazine recently linked to an interview with Jim Lahey, “inventor” of no-knead bread. I eventually tracked it down1 and gave it a listen, and on the whole it is very interesting. Two things, however, irked me. One, relatively trivial, is an idiot comme...
📗 The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
📗 Started reading The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
👓 Why Microformats? Owning My Reviews | Aaron Parecki
Aaron Parecki (Aaron Parecki)Back in October, I wrote a bunch of short mini-reviews on products and services that I use regularly. I published them all on a single page called "Favorite Things". In the past, I've written a couple of reviews on Amazon and then copied them to my website as a blog post. I decided it was time to be...
👓 Guest Post: In Praise of Globes | MathBabe
The decision by the Boston school system to replace maps of the world using the Mercator projection with maps using the Gall-Peters projection has garnered a lot of favorable press from outlets such as NPR, The Guardian, Newsweek, and many others.