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Much of what passes as educational technology are corporate products designed for purposes of profit-seeking, surveillance, data collection, and user lock-in. Other kinds of technology exist, but they typically lack the marketing and sales budgets of competing vendors. Ethical EdTech is an online community that shares tools and techniques to facilitate pedagogy that puts participants... Read More
Minimising the friction of advertising my thoughts in order to maximise the chance a clever thought gets advertised.
A nice write up for those looking at technology for academic blogging or maintaining a static website.
Upon the efficient consumption and summarizing of news from around the world.
Facebook is informative in the same way that thumb sucking is nourishing. ❧
Annotated on February 09, 2020 at 10:28AM
Upon the efficient consumption and summarizing of news from around the world.
Remember? from when we though the internet would provide us timely, pertinent information from around the world?
How do we find internet information in a timely fashion?
I have been told to do this through Twitter or Facebook, but, seriously… no. Those are systems designed to waste time with stupid distractions in order to benefit someone else. Facebook is informative in the same way that thumb sucking is nourishing. Telling me to use someone’s social website to gain information is like telling me to play poker machines to fix my financial troubles. Stop that. ❧
Annotated on February 09, 2020 at 10:40AM
The success of last year, says Open Road’s CMO, involves not just its ‘Ignition’ marketing program but also readers’ interest in work that may not be new. An image promoting ‘The Archive,’ one of six verticals served by newsletter outreach to consumers in the Open Road Ignition marketing...
Bookmarked on February 08, 2020 at 01:19PM
Jack Jamieson wants to help build a better, more egalitarian internet – in effect, helping to realize the vision of the technology’s early pioneers.
This is awesome Jack!
Jan Boddez (janboddez.tech)Triggered by Ton’s “Webmention tweaks”—or is it “Semantic Linkbacks tweaks”?—I decided to have a look at how WordPress generates its increasingly rare pingback “previews.” The resulting gist is a somewhat ugly PHP function that, given an HTML string and target URL, returns the link...
Tantek Çelik (tantek.com)For a while I have brainstormed designs for a user experience (UX) to create, edit, and publish notes and other types of posts, that is fully undoable (like Gmail’s "Undo Send" yet generalized to all user actions) and redoable, works local first, and lastly, uses progressive enhancement to work wi...
Joe Buhlig (joebuhlig.com)Save yourself the trouble. Set up a bank account for your blog or podcast early on in the process. The accounting mess of managing the finances within your personal account isn’t worth the trouble. This is especially true when there are online business banks that make the process smooth. I did it ...
The Jetpack Plugin from Automattic leaves no one cold. And it polarizes extremely. Either you love it or you hate it. There doesn’t seem to be a grey area in between, does there?
Some interesting and useful points here. Is Automattic becoming a bit too much like some of their fellow social silos?
I’m curious if anyone has done a grid comparison or set of suggestions to replace Jetpack functionality with other community based plugins for those that only want one or two of the features?
Twitter is demanding that Rep. Devin Nunes’ lawyer pay its legal fees in a new court filing responding to one of the Republican congressman’s attempts to identify anonymous people who heckle him online. Nunes is suing Twitter in a Virginia court, but the new filing is part of a lawsuit that is not related to the California lawmaker.
Devin Nunes is such a bone head.
Brendan Schlagel (Twitter)Okay this is absolutely blowing up my timeline in the last 24 hrs so I'm gonna bite—
— Brendan Schlagel (@schlagetown) December 15, 2019
*Now brainstorming: 100 opinions on books & reading*
(1 like = 1 opinion. Max 100. RT if you'd like some hot takes about antilibraries, bookstores, reading habits & more!) https://t.co/VPZnuH2Shm
Just finished reading this. Some interesting tidbits hiding in it.
Greg McVerry (jgregorymcverry.com)Hey #IndieWeb here is a quick video on what to expect at @IndieWebCamp Online
The first THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) was held at the Center for History and New Media (now the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media) at George Mason University in the summer of 2008 (back when Flickr was a big deal — click the above screenshot to browse THATCamp photos on Flickr). I wrote a fair amount about how THATCamp first came to be and how it was turned into a larger initiative in a 2013 talk called “On Projects, and THATCamp.” Nearly seven years later, I’m still proud of THATCamp; I think it has been a model of sustainability among grant-funded projects, and I think it did a great deal to demystify the digital humanities and digital methods more generally for a whole generation of scholars and information professionals. The number of registered THATCamps has grown from 170 when I wrote that talk in 2013 to (my goodness) over 320 events today, a phenomenon that has taken place without a single full-time THATCamp employee, with just a dedicated distributed community and the hosting support of staff members at RRCHNM and Reclaim Hosting. The WordPress Multisite instance on thatcamp.org has 11,803 users, and while it’s true that several hundred of those might be spam or inactive users, I think that’s still impressive.