Mandy Brown (A Working Library)books are a means of listening to the thoughts of others so that you can hear your own thoughts more clearly. ❧
And annotation helps you save those thoughts, share them with others, and further refine them.
You call this modern life a good one? Everything's gotten smaller and puckered up.
High school is just a bunch of scared people pretending they’re not.
—Cameron Kweller portrayed by Tanner Buchanan in He’s All That (Netflix, 2021)
While not exact, this quote is incredibly similar in tone to a quote from a columnist in June 1928, which has been oft repeated and slightly modified since including versions by Will Rogers and in Fight Club.
Americanism: Using money you haven’t earned to buy things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like.
—Robert Quillen, The Detroit Free Press, Page 6, Column 4, Detroit, Michigan. June 4, 1928
It’s all about image and being what we’re not.
Apparently the message of the original film She’s All That was completely lost. I’m not sure the current incarnation of this remake will be an inflection point either.
You don’t make a bagel by first baking a bialy and then punching out the center. No—you roll out a snake of dough and join the ends together to form the bagel. If you denied that a bagel has a hole, you’d be laughed out of New York City, Montreal, and any self-respecting deli worldwide. I consider this final.
“we hold these truths to be self-evident” wasn’t Jefferson’s line; his first draft of the Declaration has “we hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable.” It was Ben Franklin who scratched out those words and wrote “self-evident” instead, making the document a little less biblical, a little more Euclidean.
Jeremy Keith (adactio.com)I love my website. Even though it isn’t a physical thing, I think it might be my most prized possession.
It’s a place for me to think and a place for me to link.
how to start a bakery:
— atavik (@atav1k) April 22, 2021
- get into tech.
- lose all hope.
- start baking.
He’s signing copies of a book ... that someone else wrote?
And it’s not even one of the books the Seuss estate decided to stop publishing?
And the Seuss estate is “the Left”?
What?— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 13, 2021.@tedcruz is signing copies of Green Eggs & Ham for a $60 contribution, via my text message inbox. pic.twitter.com/BNnZC235w7
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) March 12, 2021
You asked - we delivered!
— WP Buffs (@thewpbuffs) January 4, 2021
We almost had @DavidWolfpaw on the WPAMA a few weeks ago, but had to cancel last minute. But his topic was SO popular, we rescheduled!
Coming your way this Wednesday, David and @allie_nimmons talk all things #IndieWeb!https://t.co/t7y3uuwIZM
This should be fantastic! I can’t wait.
This is a real paragraph – written by Joseph Epstein – that was published in the Wall Street Journal https://t.co/1hS8Kcu7cK pic.twitter.com/wFBmfzfidQ
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) December 12, 2020
Unless he’s a close childhood friend of Dr. Biden, he’s not even remotely entitled to call her either Jill much less “kiddo”. Much like Bill Cosby and Charlie Rose, who he cites, he should be stripped of his valueless honorary doctorate and his emeritus title at Northwestern.
I was contemplating and wavering on subscribing to the Wall Street Journal for the past month. This garbage makes it a firm no.
Amy Collier (Twitter)It's the most wonderful time of the year--time to sign up for DLINQ's 2021 Digital Detox. The topic of our '21 DD will be Digital Equity and Inclusion in a Pandemic. Join us as we reflect on and explore strategies on this important and timely topic https://t.co/OHS0jYbkug
— Anne of Green Mountains (@amcollier) December 11, 2020
actually kind of wonder why no one used that analogy before: feed readers, kind of like email clients except there’s no reply button
Feed reader as email with no reply button is like the definition of blogging as email with no “to” field.
These two quotes provide an interesting framing for comparing and contrasting the UI and functionality for the way that feed readers, email, and blogging (or more broadly networked thinking and communication) work.
Modern social readers provide a reply button and functionality along with the broadcast capabilities. Throw in the idea of person-tagging, and one has the ability to generally broadcast a message to anyone who cares to read (either by search or subscription), as well as to send notifications to specific people (or perhaps groups) that might be interested in the specific message.
David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest)“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
We need to debate what kind of hypermedia suit our vision of society - how we create the interactive products and on-line services we want to use, the kind of computers we like and the software we find most useful. We need to find ways to think socially and politically about the machines we develop. While learning from the can-do attitude of the Californian individualists, we also must recognise that the potentiality of hypermedia can never solely be realised through market forces. We need an economy which can unleash the creative powers of hi-tech artisans. Only then can we fully grasp the Promethean opportunities of hypermedia as humanity moves into the next stage of modernity. ❧
“Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you’re the fool in charge.” ❧
