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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.
Ben Werdmüller (groups.google.com)Before we begin -
- Hi! I'm going to return to spending more time on Known. As you may know, I was Director of Investments at Matter Ventures for the last two years or so, which occupied a disproportionate amount of my time. This is no longer the case. While I'm working on another open source project - Unlock - during the day, I'll be able to devote more attention to Known.
- Known deserves a 1.0 release, and will get one. Marcus and I have spoken quite a bit about the route forward.
- Commercial enhancements to Known, like the hosted service and Convoy, will get their own update. Going forward, any commercial ambitions or support for Known will be secondary to the open source project, if they exist at all.
Okay. With all of that said, I'd like to put the following out for discussion. Replies, questions, and criticisms are welcome!
This may be some of the best news I’ve heard in months! Known is one of my favorite open source CMSes that’s easy to spin up and use. It also supports so many awesome IndieWeb specs like Webmention, Micropub, WebSub, etc. right out of the box.
The runner up awesome news is that Reclaim Hosting is very likely to revamp their installatron version of it.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: Revisiting What Happened to Anita Hill | New York Times
The law professor testified against Judge Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings in 1991. What has changed since?
👓 We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage | Buzz Feed
Millions of American children were placed in orphanages. Some didn’t make it out alive.
Literally Holy Shit!
👓 Skepticism surrounds renowned mathematician’s attempted proof of 160-year-old hypothesis | Science | AAAS
The Riemann hypothesis, a formula related to the distribution of prime numbers, has remained unsolved for more than a century
One of the lesser articles I’ve seen on the topic thus far…
👓 The risks of treating 'academic innovation' as a discipline (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed
Calls to create a discipline around the term risk reinforcing existing problems with how it is used -- and misused -- in higher education, Rolin Moe writes.
📺 "Empire" Steal from the Thief | FOX
Directed by Sanaa Hamri. With Terrence Howard, Bryshere Y. Gray, Jussie Smollett, Trai Byers. The Lyons pick up the pieces after losing Empire to Eddie Barker.
I’ve really gotta quit watching this series.
📺 "Baked" New York: If You Can Bake it There | Food Network
Tom Papa heads to New York City to get a slice of the Big Apple's diverse food scene. At the Doughnut Project, Tom meets up with Jim Gaffigan and makes the ultimate New York mash-up, a glazed doughnut covered in everything bagel toppings. Tom visits Gian Piero Bakery to make an Italian America classic, rainbow cookies, colorful layers of cake and jam covered in chocolate. At Oda House, Tom falls ...
Over 700 bakeries in New York?! They did solid job of getting some awesome diversity on a first season episode. I could watch all of these. I do wish that Papa was a bit better in his food description though.
📺 "Baked" It’s Always Yummy in Philadelphia | Food Network
With Tom Papa. Tom Papa takes a trip to Philadelphia, where local bakeries' traditional roots run deep. At Termini Brothers' he learns the secret of their creamy, crunchy cannoli, then 4thand 5th generation bakers at Sarcone's show him how to make savory Sicilian-style tomato pie, baked in a giant brick oven. Tom stops by Reading Terminal Market for a juicy roast pork sandwich and ooey-gooey sticky buns. The ...
👓 Dogfood | Rick Wysocki
This past week, I finally pulled the plug and deleted my Facebook account. Or, rather, I scheduled my Facebook to be deleted in two weeks since, apparently, the company doesn’t allow users to delete accounts without giving itself a grace period. A lot of friends have pointed out real things I might miss by not being on the platform, but I feel so much lighter without the Facebook echo chamber in my head. I don’t judge people who stay on the platform–I’m not an evangelist–but it just wasn’t working for me.
👓 Trump, however, insisted later in the day that they weren't laughing at him, saying, "People had a good time with me. We were doing it together, we had a good time." | Buzz Feed
Trump, however, insisted later in the day that they weren't laughing at him, saying, "People had a good time with me. We were doing it together, we had a good time."
👓 Increasingly worried, Trump takes over Kavanaugh defense | CNN
President Donald Trump has grown increasingly dissatisfied with the way Brett Kavanaugh has defended himself in wake of sexual assault allegations that have threatened to derail his Supreme Court nomination, multiple sources tell CNN.
👓 The role of the faculty in the post-LMS world (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed
If it isn’t already, the learning management system will soon be obsolete, Jonathan Rees argues. Let’s replace it in ways that treat professors like the professionals they are.
This article has the flavor of IndieWeb about it…
Highlights, Quotes, Annotations, & Marginalia
The real internet is structured by myriad people with different aesthetics and different needs. Online course design decisions should reflect the instructor’s individuality in the same way that everyone else’s webpages do. ❧
September 26, 2018 at 05:22PM
Third, the post-LMS world should protect the pedagogical prerogatives and intellectual property rights of faculty members at all levels of employment. This means, for example, that contingent faculty should be free to take the online courses they develop wherever they happen to be teaching. Similarly, professors who choose to tape their own lectures should retain exclusive rights to those tapes. After all, it’s not as if you have to turn over your lecture notes to your old university whenever you change jobs. ❧
Own your pedagogy. Send just like anything else out there…
September 26, 2018 at 05:27PM
👓 H.R. McMaster: ‘Wholly appropriate’ for Gary Cohn to remove letter from Trump’s desk | Washington Examiner
Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster on Tuesday defended his ex-White House colleague Gary Cohn for removing a trade-related document from President's Trump.
