Category: Social Stream
Heading down to WordCamp Orange County to see friends, learn, and talk about WordPress and IndieWeb.
👓 Julia Angwin Is Out as Editor of New Tech Watchdog Site The Markup | New York Times
Ms. Angwin was one of three founders of The Markup, which is dedicated to investigating technology and its effects on society. Five journalists resigned.
📺 “Murder, She Wrote” The Murder of Sherlock Holmes | Hulu
Directed by Corey Allen. With Angela Lansbury, Eddie Barth, Jessica Browne, Bert Convy. Former English teacher Jessica Fletcher travels to New York to celebrate the success of her debut novel, but when an unwanted guest is murdered at a costume party, she wishes she'd stayed home.
A generally entertaining pilot episode, but there were several painfully obvious moments that played out over a much longer time frame than they should have. Interesting to see Ned Beatty doing television here and playing the dumb detective. Seeing Bert Convey was entertaining as I hadn’t thought about him for decades.
👓 Support for Julia Angwin grows as funders investigate the “coup” at The Markup” | Nieman Lab
After her ouster as editor-in-chief, multiple funders say they are taking steps to "reassess" their support.
👓 Game of Phones: Podcasts and podcast apps are now treating each other like wary rivals, protecting their turf | Nieman Lab
Luminary gets pushback from Spotify and The New York Times: temporary glitch or the real start of the platform wars? Plus: Gimlet gets a union, a new podcast incubator, and Mueller Mueller everywhere.
👓 L’affaire Luminary continues with more podcasts dropping out and allegations of technical bad behavior | Nieman Lab
The paid podcast app may well be doing nothing wrong in its hosting of podcasts from the open web — but nonetheless, what they've been best at thus far is generating pushback.
👓 Luminary says it’s not copying your podcast files and it’s no longer screwing with your stats — but it is killing all your show-notes links on purpose | Nieman Lab
Those links to your donate page or Patreon signup are "security concerns."
👓 The Demands of Positive Celebrity Coverage | Jezebel
It’s been a rough week to be a star, and a rough week to be someone who listens to what stars have to say. At least, that’s what social media tells me. Some of the most famous people making music today—Ariana Grande, Cardi B, and Justin Bieber (as well as Lizzo, a darling of critics and her fans but not quite of superstar status... yet?)—have shared their thoughts online regarding the state of media in 2019. None of it advocates for a free press, much less even contends with that notion. The gist is that journalism should be service journalism that primarily serves the powerful and their images.
👓 Connectivism and scale | blog.edtechie.net
In his recent post criticising the Creative Commons Certificate, which I won’t comment on, Stephen Downes repeats a claim he has made before about the scalability of the connectivist approach, stating: One of the major objectives of our original MOOCs was to enable MOOC participants to c...
👓 Chris Aldrich mentioned it was his #indieweb anniversary today, which made me wonder when I first encountered indieweb. Turns out it was six years ago! | gRegorLove.com
gRegor Morrill (gregorlove.com)Chris Aldrich mentioned it was his #indieweb anniversary today, which made me wonder when I first encountered indieweb. Turns out it was six years ago!
Exciting! Apparently there’s a used bookstore hiding in Old Town Pasadena where the music shop used to be.
Only got to spend a few minutes there on my way from a meeting, but it looks like it could be an interesting experience.
Only got to spend a few minutes there on my way from a meeting, but it looks like it could be an interesting experience.
