Recently, while browsing Twitter, I saw a few machine learning researchers post about an incident at one of their big conferences (NIPS)…
Ugh…
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👓 Announcing PressForward 5.0! | PressForward
👓 We messed up. We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change. | The Patreon Blog
We’ve heard you loud and clear. We’re not going to rollout the changes to our payments system that we announced last week. We still have to fix the problems that those changes addressed, but we’re going to fix them in a different way, and we’re going to work with you to come up with the specifics, as we should have done the first time around. Many of you lost patrons, and you lost income. No apology will make up for that, but nevertheless, I’m sorry.
It is our core belief that you should own the relationships with your fans. These are your businesses, and they are your fans.
I almost want to continue reading this as: “Yet, you’re all still stuck on our silo and we intend to keep taking a percentage for keeping you in business…”
If they were really all-in on helping the way they’re signaling here, they would be building it in a decentralized way that allows creators to take their patrons with them to another platform. They would also be expanding on features, which they don’t seem to be doing much of. I get the need to watch the bottom line and work on scaling, but they should also continue innovating and experimenting, particularly for the smaller fish who could become bigger fish.
👓 Owning my Reading and 100 Days of Reading Chapters | Eddie Hinckle
Eddie Hinkle (eddiehinkle.com)One of my goals in 2018 is to own my reading data rather than using Goodreads for all of that information. This will allow me to track information the way I want rather than have to do it like Goodreads wants me to. My eventual goal is to have something like what Xavier made, but for now I’m going...
Reading even a chapter a day can be a useful and powerful thing. I ought to be doing this as a near term goal instead of just trying to generally always “read more.”
👓 Owning my reading log | macwright.org
another sliver of digital independence
👓 IndieWebCamp Austin wrap-up | Manton Reece
Over the weekend we hosted the first IndieWebCamp in Austin. I’m really happy with the way the event came together. I learned a lot in helping plan it, made a few mistakes that we can improve next time, but overall came away as inspired as ever to keep improving Micro.blog so that it’s a standou...
Donald Trump denies meeting his accusers, but PEOPLE has the photo proving he met Natasha Stoynoff
Results for the U.S. Senate special election between Roy S. Moore, a Republican, and Doug Jones, a Democrat.
At Twitter, we have a history of studying how people use our service and then creating features to make what they’re doing easier. The Retweet, '@reply', and hashtag are examples of this. A few years ago we noticed people creatively stitching Tweets together to share more information or tell a longer story – like this. We saw this approach (which we call “threading”) as an innovative way to present a train of thought, made up of connected but individual elements.
What changes are being made to Storify.com?
Unfortunately, Storify will no longer be available after May 16, 2018.
President Trump and several members of his family were not in the Big Apple Nov. 7 when voters went the polls.
📗 Started reading The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane
📗 Started reading pages 1-18 Introduction: Why is Life the Way it is in The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by
A quick, but interesting peek into where he intends to go. He lays out some quick background here in the opening. He’s generally a very lucid writer so far. Can’t wait to get in further.
Some may feel like some of the terminology is a hurdle in the opening, so I hope he circles around to define some of his terms a bit better for the audience I suspect he’s trying to reach.
📕 Read pages 381-461 of Origin by Dan Brown
📕 Read pages 381-461 to finish reading Origin: A Novel by
This last section got pretty heavy into evolution and touched on ideas of information theory applied to biology and complexity, but didn’t actually mention them. Surprisingly he mentioned Jeremy England by name! He nibbled around the edges of the field to tie up the plot, but there’s some reasonable philosophical questions hiding here in the end of the book that I’ll have to pull into a more lengthy review.
👓 No one makes a living on Patreon | The Outline
Who is really benefiting from the crowdfunding site for artists?
This makes me want to find alternate and more direct means of donating money to people I want to support.
This could be a use case for people to have payment pages on their own websites to make the process more direct. This would also mean that they could post their update content on their own website and use either feeds and/or email to update their patrons.
I haven’t seen a “Patreon” concept on someone’s website in the wild yet, but I have seen examples like Tantek Çelik’s payment page, that do provide a start to the process. Many CMSs already have many of the other moving parts already built in for things like following/subscribing.
👓 Former Mass. lawmaker accused of taking hundreds of pounds of free Dunkin’ Donuts coffee | The Hill
A former Massachusetts state senator was charged Friday with using his position to collect $1 million in bribes, as well as hundreds of pounds of free Dunkin’ Donuts coffee.
If you’re going to put your career at risk, hundreds of pounds of free coffee is a good reason, right?