A little more than 4 years ago, I was at #dlrn15 hearing Jim Groom talk about Domain of One's Own, and Eddie Maloney talking the graduate degree they were developing, the one that would become the MA in Learning, Design, and Technology. I was about to start at UMW, and
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👓 facebook backfeed via email notifications · Issue #854 · snarfed/bridgy | GitHub
this is a kinda crazy, somewhat dangerous, generally inadvisable idea that we almost certainly shouldn't do...at least, not as a public facing service for everyone. @chrisaldrich had the ...
👓 The Pac-Man Rule at Conferences | Eric Holscher
The rule is:
When standing as a group of people, always leave room for 1 person to join your group.More memorably, stand like Pac-Man!
The new person, who has been given permission to join your group, will gather up the courage, and join you! Another important point, the group should now readjust to leave another space for a new person.
Leaving room for new people when standing in a group is a physical way to show an inclusive and welcoming environment. It reduces the feeling of there being cliques, and allows people to integrate themselves into the community.
I’ve always instinctively done this at networking events; it’s great to have a good name for it.
Hat tip: Kevin Marks who linked to
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Tell everyone about the Pacman rule!https://t.co/ufi3BZKpZo— Samathy Barratt (@Samathy_Barratt) June 13, 2019
👓 Always. Own. Your platform. | alwaysownyourplatform.com
You know, it wasn't that long ago. There was RSS. There were blogs.
Nice little Easter egg hiding in their meta data….
👓 Elizabeth Warren, day 2 | Dave Winer
What would our advice be to the Warren campaign, if they asked for it?
👓 Why Elizabeth Warren should be on the open web | Dave Winer
Why the open web is a better choice for a thoughtful and futuristic campaign like Warren's.
Many of my own thoughts reflected here.
👓 Backfeed without code | Ryan Barrett
Ryan Barrett (snarfed.org)I’ve spent most of my time in the IndieWeb on backfeed: sending interactions from social networks back to your web site. Bridgy, the service we built, has served that need wel...
This sounds like a lovely and simple idea. Definitely worth attempting as a simple method.
👓 Feed Reading By Social Distance | Ton Zijlstra
At the Crafting {:} a Life unconference one of the things that came up in our conversations was how you take information in, while avoiding the endlessly scrolling timelines of FB and Twitter as well as FOMO. My description of how I read feeds ‘by social distance‘ was met with curiosity and ‘c...
Ton’s archives have some more material on this topic, but it’s definitely an interesting way to sort and filter one’s feeds.
👓 The Good Social Internet | Bennett Tomlin
Bennett Tomlin (Bennett's Blog)Social media often sucks. The social internet is a magical place full of rich relationships, new connections, intriguing ideas, and true community. What do I mean when I say the social internet? It…
Some great little quotes hiding in here:
The simple reason is that the dynamics of most social media are very different from the dynamics of other social internet applications. For one there seems to be a fundamental push vs pull difference in the way that you normally come to view the content.
The internet was on demand, instead of demanding.
👓 Duxtape | Kicks Condor
While messing with Dat last night, I got carried away in nostalgia and began… recreating Muxtape in Dat. I wanted to see how far I could get. (If you don’t know what Muxtape was—it was a way of sharing mp3 mixtapes online for a brief window of time in 2008, until it was shut down by the grown-ups.)
So, it seemed interesting to try to replicate Muxtape, because it would be very hard to “shut down” on the Dat network. And, sure enough, I was able to get it working quite well: you can upload songs, tweak the colors and titles, order the songs and such—I think this is quite faithful.
And, yes, it’s peer-to-peer. You can edit your tape using the URL created for you. Then you can pass that same URL out to share your tape. Visitors can listen to the music and seed the tape for everyone else.
If you’re interested in seeing what a mix looks like, try: dat://8587f3…aa/. (You’ll need Beaker.)
Source code is here. Inspired by Tara Vancil’s dat-photos-app. Thanks, Tara!
This is an awesome idea. I really wish I had the bandwidth to dig into DAT. Who wouldn’t want to be able to make mixtapes like this for the internet? It’s not too dissimilar to my listen feed (aka faux-cast), but could be more customized and curated for friends/family.👓 WordPress VIP Go sites are experience outages (yes, us included) | TechCrunch.tumblr.com
Read Wordpress VIP Go sites are experience outages (yes, us included) (TechCrunch) You might have notice something funny if you visited TechCrunch dot com this morning (aside form the usual dryly hilarious tech commentary, that is). Our site, along with others, was hit by a major...Fascinating to see TechCrunch is syndicating content to a Tumblr so they’re still “up” during a hosting outage.👓 Twitter Just Suspended My Account After The Cover Of My Book Offended Their Algorithm | Crooks and Liars
Read Twitter Just Suspended My Account After The Cover Of My Book Offended Their Algorithm (Crooks and Liars) The cover of my book, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right, is now being equated to actual hate speech that I report on.👓 To Save The Science Poster, Researchers Want To Kill It And Start Over | NPR
Read To Save The Science Poster, Researchers Want To Kill It And Start Over by Nell Greenfieldboyce (NPR)
Mike Morrison hardly looks like a revolutionary. He's wearing a dark suit and has short hair. But we're about to enter a world of conformity that hasn't changed in decades — maybe even a century. And in there, his vision seems radical. "We are about to walk into a room full of 100 scientific posters, where researchers are trying to display their findings on a big poster board," says Morrison, a doctoral student in psychology at Michigan State University. The idea of a science poster is simple. Get some poster-making materials and then slap on a title, the experimental methods and the results. Almost everyone has created a poster like this at some point — often in childhood, for a school assignment or a science fair.I like the idea of this, but most conferences worth their salt also publish short abstracts of most poster presentations which have roughly this type of short overview of poster presentations. Prepared researchers will have scanned through them all and highlighted a dozen or so they want to stop by to see more about or meet the researchers.Of course, all this to say that this method isn’t a potential improvement for the lazy drive-by poster visitor.
👓 The Day the Music Burned | New York Times Magazine
Read The Day the Music Burned (New York Times Magazine) It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire.This brings back some memories of when I worked for several months for Iron Mountain at their Hollywood facility right next to Anawalt lumber. They had quite a large repository of music masters stored there as well as a custom nitrate film vault. At the time I remember thinking many of the same things mentioned here. I suspect that there’s an even bigger issue in film preservation, though this particular article makes it seem otherwise.I’m surprised that the author doesn’t whip out any references to the burning of the Library at Alexandria, which may have been roughly on par in terms of cultural loss to society. It’s painfully sad that UMG covered up the devastating loss.
The artwork for the piece is really brilliant. Some great art direction here.
👓 There’s Nothing Wrong With Posing for Photos at Chernobyl | Taylor Lorenz | The Atlantic
Read There’s Nothing Wrong With Posing for Photos at Chernobyl by (The Atlantic) Influencer-style pictures are simply the way we document our lives now.Strip away the headline and the social media influencer angle which is a canard.There’s an interesting societal shift happening here in photography. For counterpoint, compare this with Pictures of Death: Postmortem Photography by Nancy West (The Atlantic).