A little more than 4 years ago, I was at #dlrn15 hearing Jim Groom talk about Domain of One's Own, and Eddie Maloney talking the graduate degree they were developing, the one that would become the MA in Learning, Design, and Technology. I was about to start at UMW, and
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👓 facebook backfeed via email notifications · Issue #854 · snarfed/bridgy | GitHub
this is a kinda crazy, somewhat dangerous, generally inadvisable idea that we almost certainly shouldn't do...at least, not as a public facing service for everyone. @chrisaldrich had the ...
👓 The Pac-Man Rule at Conferences | Eric Holscher
The rule is:
When standing as a group of people, always leave room for 1 person to join your group.More memorably, stand like Pac-Man!
The new person, who has been given permission to join your group, will gather up the courage, and join you! Another important point, the group should now readjust to leave another space for a new person.
Leaving room for new people when standing in a group is a physical way to show an inclusive and welcoming environment. It reduces the feeling of there being cliques, and allows people to integrate themselves into the community.
I’ve always instinctively done this at networking events; it’s great to have a good name for it.
Hat tip: Kevin Marks who linked to
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Tell everyone about the Pacman rule!https://t.co/ufi3BZKpZo— Samathy Barratt (@Samathy_Barratt) June 13, 2019
👓 Always. Own. Your platform. | alwaysownyourplatform.com
You know, it wasn't that long ago. There was RSS. There were blogs.
Nice little Easter egg hiding in their meta data….
👓 Elizabeth Warren, day 2 | Dave Winer
What would our advice be to the Warren campaign, if they asked for it?
👓 Why Elizabeth Warren should be on the open web | Dave Winer
Why the open web is a better choice for a thoughtful and futuristic campaign like Warren's.
Many of my own thoughts reflected here.
👓 Backfeed without code | Ryan Barrett
Ryan Barrett (snarfed.org)I’ve spent most of my time in the IndieWeb on backfeed: sending interactions from social networks back to your web site. Bridgy, the service we built, has served that need wel...
This sounds like a lovely and simple idea. Definitely worth attempting as a simple method.
👓 Feed Reading By Social Distance | Ton Zijlstra
At the Crafting {:} a Life unconference one of the things that came up in our conversations was how you take information in, while avoiding the endlessly scrolling timelines of FB and Twitter as well as FOMO. My description of how I read feeds ‘by social distance‘ was met with curiosity and ‘c...
Ton’s archives have some more material on this topic, but it’s definitely an interesting way to sort and filter one’s feeds.
👓 The Good Social Internet | Bennett Tomlin
Bennett Tomlin (Bennett's Blog)Social media often sucks. The social internet is a magical place full of rich relationships, new connections, intriguing ideas, and true community. What do I mean when I say the social internet? It…
Some great little quotes hiding in here:
The simple reason is that the dynamics of most social media are very different from the dynamics of other social internet applications. For one there seems to be a fundamental push vs pull difference in the way that you normally come to view the content.
The internet was on demand, instead of demanding.
👓 Duxtape | Kicks Condor
While messing with Dat last night, I got carried away in nostalgia and began… recreating Muxtape in Dat. I wanted to see how far I could get. (If you don’t know what Muxtape was—it was a way of sharing mp3 mixtapes online for a brief window of time in 2008, until it was shut down by the grown-ups.)
So, it seemed interesting to try to replicate Muxtape, because it would be very hard to “shut down” on the Dat network. And, sure enough, I was able to get it working quite well: you can upload songs, tweak the colors and titles, order the songs and such—I think this is quite faithful.
And, yes, it’s peer-to-peer. You can edit your tape using the URL created for you. Then you can pass that same URL out to share your tape. Visitors can listen to the music and seed the tape for everyone else.
If you’re interested in seeing what a mix looks like, try: dat://8587f3…aa/. (You’ll need Beaker.)
Source code is here. Inspired by Tara Vancil’s dat-photos-app. Thanks, Tara!
This is an awesome idea. I really wish I had the bandwidth to dig into DAT. Who wouldn’t want to be able to make mixtapes like this for the internet? It’s not too dissimilar to my listen feed (aka faux-cast), but could be more customized and curated for friends/family.Listened to Werner Herzog on Gorbachev from On the Media | WNYC Studios Bob sits down with acclaimed director and documentarian Werner Herzog to discuss his latest film "Meeting Gorbachev."
Renowned director and documentarian Werner Herzog's latest filmmaking endeavor examines the legacy of the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. For the film, Herzog sat down with the 88 year-old former General Secretary for a candid conversation about his complicated legacy. In the latest installment of Bob's Docs, Herzog joins Bob to discuss his filmmaking process and the history of the man he profiled.
Listened to A New Look at "The View" from On the Media | WNYC Studios The View is a sort of mythical beast, with the head of a chat show, the body of a reality show and the tail of a politics forum. And it also plays like a pro-wrestling spectacle: a lowbrow morality play with protagonists, antagonists and a lot of conflict. Ruth Graham writes in Slate that "The View is the show you watch if you want to see a former Survivor contestant debate a former professional wrestler on the morality of waterboarding. On the other hand, it’s the daytime show that debated waterboarding." Ramin Setoodeh is the author of Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View and the New York bureau chief for Variety. Bob and Setoodah talk about how a show populated with B-list celebrities has become a center of gravity for political discourse.
🎧 Is True Crime Jinxed? | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Listened to Is True Crime Jinxed? by from On the Media | WNYC Studios We revisit Bob's conversation with filmmaker Joe Berlinger, about the ethics of HBO's "The Jinx."
Whether Robert Durst confessed on camera will become a relevant legal matter in the real estate figure's upcoming trial. The supposed confession — "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course." — at the end of HBO's The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst has recently been revealed to have been seriously, deceptively edited. In 2015 Bob spoke with documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger, co-creater of the Paradise Lost trilogy, about modern filmmaker, the responsibility of the artist and different interpretations of "truth." It's a relevant conversation to revisit, this week in particular.
Some interesting ethical questions here. Something to think about with respect to documentaries, truth, and entertainment value. Some pieces not too dissimilar to how some cable news stations are approaching the news these days.👓 WordPress VIP Go sites are experience outages (yes, us included) | TechCrunch.tumblr.com
Read Wordpress VIP Go sites are experience outages (yes, us included) (TechCrunch) You might have notice something funny if you visited TechCrunch dot com this morning (aside form the usual dryly hilarious tech commentary, that is). Our site, along with others, was hit by a major...Fascinating to see TechCrunch is syndicating content to a Tumblr so they’re still “up” during a hosting outage.👓 Twitter Just Suspended My Account After The Cover Of My Book Offended Their Algorithm | Crooks and Liars
Read Twitter Just Suspended My Account After The Cover Of My Book Offended Their Algorithm (Crooks and Liars) The cover of my book, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right, is now being equated to actual hate speech that I report on.
