In response to Baker & Taylor closing its retail wholesale business, Penguin Random House has launched the Indies Express Program to transition B&T indie bookstore accounts to direct sales.
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👓 Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses | New York Times
Newly obtained tax information reveals that from 1985 to 1994, Donald J. Trump’s businesses were in far bleaker condition than was previously known.
Amazing businessman apparently = total failure. The numbers and statistics here are simply staggering!
👓 Pop Up Ed Tech, Trust, and Ephemerality | ammienoot.com
This post captures a back and forth text conversation that Tannis Morgan and I had about an idea that piqued her interest from my NGDLE rant in 2017. I really enjoyed the way we worked this up between us. I wrote a lot of it fast and off the cuff and I’m sure with editing it would be more coherent, but hey ho, it can stand. As an aside we used the excellent Etherpad setup courtesy of the B.C. OpenETC. Etherpad remains one of my favourite tools for super-simple collaborative writing.
👓 draft-abr-twitter-reply-00 – A reply to a specific tweet | IETF.org
This document is a response to a tweet. It is of very limited interest.
This is a tough way to tweet! Almost goes to show that you can twist almost any online platform to create a blog of sorts.
👓 Images Humble, Quirky, and Grand | Buttondown
Melanie Titmuss Bracelli’s Bizzarie di Varie Figure (1624) Emma Taylor, book sculptures A few years ago, when I was giving a talk at Vassar, I met a...
👓 New home page for Micro.blog | Manton Reece
Manton Reece (manton.org)We’ve launched a redesigned home page for new users on Micro.blog today. The old design was a little too sparse and didn’t do a very good job of explaining what Micro.blog is. The challenge is that Micro.blog is really 2 things — a blog hosting platform and a social network for microblogs —?...
Interesting, but a tad on the busy side. There are a few UI things I should suggest here including making the video more obvious, a clearer call to action, and links from the avatars to the user pages, but it’ll have to wait a moment.
👓 New home page for Micro.blog | Manton Reece
Manton Reece (micro.blog)New home page for Micro.blog manton.org
Some interesting thoughts in the replies here. Deserves some additional thought for UI/UX, particularly for the number of services micro.blog provides.
👓 IndieWeb | Phil Dreizen
Phil Dreizen (kupad.net)The indieweb is a movement to own your presence, and data on the web. The idea is that you: own a domain that becomes your "home" - the center of your identity on the web. There you control all the data that you publish: the text, the pictures you took, the video. The look and formatting of your sit...
👓 Extending www.jvt.me to allow for other post types | jvt.me
Welcome to my first https://indieweb.org/note! Notes are short-form content that will be purely plain text (for now!) and are similar to tweets on Twitter or toots on Mastodon, but won't be size limited.
This is some cool news.
As side notes: I’ll have to look at the mark up and my parser which seems to pick up nothing from Jamie’s pages. I also note the footer uses a different font for the LinkedIn link?
👓 Five Picassos went missing from the L.A. Times. What happened to them? | LA Times
The Times' former parent company once had a 110-piece art collection, but now the works by Rufino Tamayo, Milton Avery, Richard Diebenkorn and Pablo Picasso are gone — including some under strange circumstances.
Fascinating story…
👓 On planets and reading lists | Malcolm Blaney
Malcolm Blaney (unicyclic.com)This is going to be a long one, so the short version is summed up in this screenshot: That's from the top of this page: unicyclic.com/indieweb, which is a feed combined from different sources, commonly referred to as a planet. Up until now I've been adding new feeds to that page as people join th...
👓 We Launched a Paywall. It Worked! Mostly. | Wired
Here’s what we learned, including some surprises, in year one.
👓 reply | IndieWeb
A reply (or comment) is a kind of post that is a text (typically, though photos are possible too) response to some other post, that makes little or no sense without reading or at least knowing the context of the source post.
👓 Sharing the Domains Documentation Love | bavatuesdays
I wanted to make sure Adam Croom gets the appropriate love for helping several schools get up and running with Domains documentation over the last several months. More than a few folks have in…