👓 An Indieweb Web Directory | Brad Enslen

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My random thought for the day.  These can be dangerous.  Hold my beer. What would happen if you combined a standard web directory script with Indieweb.org features like webmentions and such?  I think you could end up with a very powerful tool for a directory. I have not the slightest idea how on...

👓 I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the New York Times Opinion Desk | BuzzFeed

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I work for the Gray Lady, but my loyalty is to the Take.

👓 Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened | The Guardian

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Exclusive: documents released to Guardian reveal government photographer cropped space ‘where crowd ended’

👓 The mysterious case of missing URLs and Google’s AMP | sonniesedge

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When I saw a speculative article about Google wanting to “kill” URLs appear in my news feed, I didn’t think too much about it. Trying to hide “ugly” URLs… well, that feels like a natural thing for an app to try and do. Designers of apps often (erroneously) assume that users cannot cope with “technical” things like URLs and try to hide them away, lest the user start bleeding from their eyes.

👓 The Verge at work: backing up your brain | The Verge

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The Verge at Work is a series about process. We’re not scientists, and we’re not gurus, we’re just trying to get some work done. The solutions presented here are highly personal, and highly personalized. Not the only way, but our way. Writing about the history of commonplace books in The New York Review of Books, Robert Darnton notes that readers in early modern England, from the layperson to famous minds like Francis Bacon and John Milton, “read in fits,” moving from book to book, grabbing bites, consuming and rearranging them. They’d transcribe and revisit notable passages in their commonplace books as a way to further comprehend the written word. Darnton writes, “[Reading and writing] belonged to a continuous effort to make sense of things, for the world was full of signs: you could read your way through it; and by keeping an account of your readings, you made a book of your own, one stamped with your personality.” Sixty years ago, Vannevar Bush imagined a hypertext information machine (a memex) in his essay ‘As We May Think’ that would act as an “intimate supplement” to memory. Bush imagined a desk-sized machine for keeping track of a user’s books, records, and communications, tracking what you read and your notes like a modern day version of the commonplace book. Years after reading a book or writing down a note, the user would be able to return to it, tracing written thoughts in “trails” that can be recalled, shared, and stored. “Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race,” Bush wrote, surely unaware of where hypertext would take us.

👓 Here are the four Trump staffers most likely behind the anonymous New York Times op-ed. | Weekly Standard

Read Here are the four Trump staffers most likely behind the anonymous New York Times op-ed. (The Weekly Standard)
It’s only been online for a few hours, but the anonymous New York Times op-ed penned by a “senior official in the Trump administration” has set off a frenzy of guessing about who is claiming to be one of the people “working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst…

👓 I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration | The New York Times

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I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
I catch myself thinking for a moment that it would be an entertaining joke on Trump if they published this without such a source existing. The end of this week’s news cycle is going to be consumed with this piece…

👓 The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral | Hopgood

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Opening keynote for dLRN 2015. Delivered October 16th @ Stanford. Actual keynote may have gone on significant tangents… 1 | a year in the garden A week or so ago, I was reading about the Oreg…
A fantastic read. This makes me want to supplement my commonplace book here on the web with a wiki instance.

📖 Read pages 79-92 of 288 of Linked: The New Science Of Networks by Albert-László Barabási

📖 Read pages 79-92 of 288 of Linked: The New Science Of Networks by Albert-László Barabási

He’s continuing the evolving story of network research following along some of his own research and that of others. There’s something unsettling or missing here in the jump to preferential attachment. What is causing preferential attachment to occur? This may be a factor of the individual settings in which things are happening, but it feels like a major missing piece from an otherwise organic feeling mathematical/theoretical perspective.

👓 Suggestion: Dealing with Information Overload · Issue #280 · feedbin/feedbin | GitHub

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I sometimes talk to friend about using RSS and I've heard repeatedly them abandoning it for the following reason. At the beginning everything is great, they love it. They don't have too muc...

👓 @sweden signs off after seven years as Twitter voice of nation | The Guardian

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Curators of Sweden project will fall silent at end of month after 200,000 tweets by 365 citizens

👓 AMP for WordPress Plugin to Introduce User-Friendly Theme Support Settings in Upcoming 1.0 Release | WP Tavern

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In October, Google’s open source AMP project (Accelerated Mobile Pages) will be heading into its third year. The initiative aims to improve performance on the mobile web and currently boasts …