Not surprisingly, Google and Microsoft have the most data largely due to their email systems. Google also has a significant amount of K12 LMS data because of the popular Classroom system.
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Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
👓 How The "Lit Shot" Became The Trend For Authors To Announce Book Deals On Twitter | BuzzFeed News
Hard-to-read screenshots of paywalled book industry websites dominate Literary Twitter.
👓 The Jaguar and the Fox | The Atlantic
Hard as he tried, Murray Gell-Mann could never make himself into a legend like his rakish colleague and collaborator, Richard Feynman -- even if he was probably the greater physicist
Great story of two physicists. There has to be some interesting study one could do here on scientific communication to compare these two.
👓 Rural Americans would be serfs if we abolished the Electoral College | USA TODAY
If the National Popular Vote drive kills the Electoral College, rural and small town Americans who supply our food and energy will lose their voice.
There’s a lot of fearmongering here with absolutely no evidence that any of this would actually be the case. There are some huge jumps in logic and nothing tying this thesis together. Ugh….
👓 Thinking About App Camp: Amazing Accomplishments That Are Hard to Scale | micro.welltempered.net
It’s been a week since the news was announced that there wouldn’t be the App Camp For Girls program in Summer 2019 and that the board of directors would be exploring options for furthering the mission of the organization by other means. I said I would write a proper blog post once I had a chance...
Sorry to hear that they’re moving away from their initial set up. I’m curious which direction they go next. I’m hoping they don’t shut down all together.
I’m curious about the difference in structure with this and Steam:Coders and how the set ups could be franchised.
👓 Open Invitation for Domain Camp 2019 | Domains of Our Own
It takes a bit more work to learn all of the tools and what is available when you can install many kinds of web sites and web-based apps and manage access to them. But as owner of your own domain, you get to fully control your footprint on the web.
If this has a ring of interest to you, this summer we revive last year’s summer Domain Camp, a set of activities and support areas to help you learn what you can do inside the big cpanel of possibilities (that’s your domain dashboard).
Each week we will include an intro video, a set of activities to do inside your domain, open office hours, and community spaces to ask and answer questions.
We are setting up camp again to start the week of June 11, 2019. Are you interested? If so, please sign up and let us know (or see form at bottom).
Sick and tired of corporate social media silos owning your online identity and content? Domain Camp is back again this year to help people learn in small, easy chunks how to take back their online lives. There’s lots of online help and interaction to get you on your way.
If participants would like to use it, I’d welcome them to the wealth of additional resources on the IndieWeb wiki as well as an open and friendly online chat where one can find lots of help and advice as you work to make your domain your own.
👓 Unloved Patches | bitsplitting.org
For a long time I have admired the WordPress project, for developing such a robust blogging platform that is ultimately open, and free, and anybody can contribute improvements to it. I encourage many of my customers to use WordPress with MarsEdit, because it seems like a "safe bet" going forward. M
I’ve heard this story too often before and it just pains me to no end…
👓 Twitter Bans #Resistance-Famous Krassenstein Brothers for Allegedly Operating Fake Accounts | The Daily Beast
Ed and Brian Krassenstein are banned for life after ‘operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions,’ a Twitter spokesman said.
👓 Snapchat Employees Abused Data Access to Spy on Users | Vice
Multiple sources and emails also describe SnapLion, an internal tool used by various departments to access Snapchat user data.
👓 Investigations into a present but silent Garfield | Fogknife
Jason McIntosh (Fogknife)I accidentally led a group research project into a dimly remembered but superior predecessor to "Garfield Minus Garfield".
👓 I read Ruined by Design | Fogknife
Jason McIntosh (Fogknife)Thoughts on Mike Monteiro's 2019 polemical book, which insists in fiery terms that the design field start asserting its own, independent responsibility for the power it wields today.
👓 Create your own WordPress.com! | WP Ultimo
With WP Ultimo you will be able to setup a Website as a Service platform, like WordPress.com or Wix.com, in a matter of minutes, not months!
This is just the sort of thing one could leverage to build a gen2+ IndieWeb platform…
👓 Hey there, Pro Sites user! | WP Ultimo
WP Ultimo is a WordPress multisite plugin that allows you to create a network of Premium Sites. Its value proposition is the same as Pro Sites: you can create different subscription tiers and have customers pay you a recurring fee to have a site hosted in your Multisite network. In fact, WP Ultimo was created after I needed a solution for a premium network I was building and found that Pro Sites didn’t quite work for the specific requirements of my project. Instead of trying to adapt Pro Sites, I decided to build my own solution from scratch. This was 2.5 years ago and that codebase is now WP Ultimo.
👓 Dashes and hyphens: A comprehensive guide | The Week
Everything you wanted to know about dashes but were afraid to ask
👓 Testing Webmention to EdTechFactotum site | Clint Lalonde
I am playing around with some Indieweb plugins, so this is just a test post to see if, by adding a link to a post on my EdTechFacotum site appears in the comments as a webmention. How much of this …
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