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👓 Friday, August 10, 2018 | Scripting News

Read Friday, August 10, 2018 by Dave Winer (Scripting News)
I got an email in the middle of the night asking if I had seen an announcement from Berkman Center at Harvard that they will stop hosting blogs.harvard.edu. It's not clear what will happen to the archives. Let's have a discussion about this. That was the first academic blog hosting system anywhere. It was where we planned and reported on our Berkman Thursday meetups, and BloggerCon. It's where the first podcasts were hosted. When we tried to figure out what makes a weblog a weblog, that's where the result was posted. There's a lot of history there. I can understand turning off the creation of new posts, making the old blogs read-only, but as a university it seems to me that Harvard should have a strong interest in maintaining the archive, in case anyone in the future wants to study the role we played in starting up these (as it turns out) important human activities.
This is some earthshaking news. Large research institutions like this should be maintaining archives of these types of things in a defacto manner. Will have to think about some implications for others in the DoOO and IndieWeb spaces.

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👓 A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate Relationship With Twitter | Jean MacDonald

Read A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate Relationship With Twitter by Jean MacDonaldJean MacDonald (micro.welltempered.net)
TL;DR You don’t have to choose between the platforms, but here are some of the ways that they are different. You don’t have to leave Twitter, but there is a good chance Twitter will leave you …without your favorite Twitter client, that is. You may also be exasperated by Twitter’s refusal to ...

📺 The Edge of Seventeen (2016) | Sony Pictures

Watched The Edge of Seventeen (2016) from Sony Pictures Entertainment
Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig. With Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner, Kyra Sedgwick. High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.
I’d started this a week or so ago and hadn’t seen the whole thing, so I came back and finished it off. Some interesting snark here on the lives of teens… I wasn’t surprised to see the production company behind it once I’d seen the film. Some generally sharp writing, but I was left feeling a bit flat at the end.

📺 Scarface (1983) | Universal

Watched Scarface (1983) from Universal Pictures
Directed by Brian De Palma. With Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
I’d delved into this last month, but came back and re-watched several parts including the end. Reminds me what a product of the 80’s this film was. Very indulgent, long, and despite the iconic end, it was not as awesome as it really should have been given the talents involved.

👓 WordPress spam statistics: comments, pingbacks, trackbacks | Ryan Barrett

Read WordPress spam statistics: comments, pingbacks, trackbacks by Ryan Barrett (snarfed.org)
Comment spam is one of the most common forms of WordPress spam, if not the most common. Here are some anecdotal statistics for this site. During the month of November 2014, snarfed.org received 796…

Reply to Curtis McHale and David Wolfpaw on rel-alternate

Replied to a tweet by DΛVID V3.0.6DΛVID V3.0.6 (Twitter)
The conversation started in the IndieWeb Chat last week with:
15:27 aaronpk: “my post permalinks now have a rel=alternate link to an mf2 and jf2 JSON version of the post”

And continued over the next several hours and days primarily with participation of aaronpk, GWG, and pfefferle among a few others.

David Shanske (GWG) and I discussed an overview of it in the most recent episode of An IndieWeb Podcast. The conversation about rel=”alternate” begins at the 11:00 minute mark.

Somewhere there’s a note that GWG has already built a big chunk of code into the Webmention/Semantic Linkbacks plugin that implements a large chunk of the work already. There’s also some work done in https://github.com/indieweb/wordpress-mf2-feed as well.

🎧 This Week in Google 463 The Final Nail in the Snap Coffin | TWiT.TV

Listened to This Week in Google 463 The Final Nail in the Snap Coffin by Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Mathew Ingram, Ant Pruitt from TWiT.tv
Apple Vs Samsung Finally Settled
  • After 7 long years, Apple vs Samsung is finally over.
  • How many cameras is too many on one phone? Five? Sixteen?
  • Facial recognition is not ready for law enforcement prime-time.
  • How can Facebook, Twitter, etc. defend against foreign interference if the US government won't help them?
  • Zero rating trumps net neutrality in California just in time for AT&T Watch TV
  • Pictures of Tweets take over Instagram
  • Adobe Project Rush will revolutionize video editing this year
Picks of the Week:
  • Jeff's Number: $117,000/year is the new poverty line in San Francisco
  • Mathew's Stuff: get your Mt Gox Bitcoin refund!
  • Ant's Things: Amazon Smile and Geek Questioner

🎧 This Week in Google 462 The People Formerly Known as the Audience | TWiT.TV

Listened to This Week in Google 462 The People Formerly Known as the Audience by Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham from TWiT.tv
The Future of Media, Gaming, and Bezels
  • As Instagram launches IGTV, the future of broadcasting is rapidly evolving. We explore Skam Austin, a new Facebook/Instagram show/experience/new media experiment.
  • Fortnight is bringing eSports into the mainstream at last.
  • Meanwhile, a new European copyright law will make memes illegal.
  • Disney fights back against Comcast in the battle for Fox.
  • Android Messenger might finally be the Google messaging platform we've been waiting for.
  • The Oppo Find X solves the all screen, no notch problem with a pop-up camera.
  • How to get your money back if you've been scammed by a Nigerian prince.
  • Sell your CryptoKitties now! Leo and Stacey explain blockchain and ICOs.
    • Picks of the Week:
    • Stacey's Thing 1: SYLVANIA LIGHTIFY ZigBee Outdoor Colored Gardenspot Starter Kit
    • Stacey's Thing 2: Delta Voice Activated Faucet with Alexa
    • Jeff's Number 1: Facebook RAICES campaign raises over $13 million, $3 million during this show alone.
    • Jeff's Number 2: Facebook stock at all-time high
    • Jeff's Number 3: Twitter and Square on the verge of doubling
    • Leo's Tool: Google Podcasts App