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👓 WordPress 4.8 adds events to the dashboard news widget | Make WordPress Communities
WordPress 4.8 will be released soon, and when that happens, local events will show up in the dashboard! For more background, check out this post. This is really exciting! It’s going to be eve…
👓 WordCamps | Make WordPress Communities
WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress, the free and open source personal publishing software that powers over 25% on the web. WordCamps come i…
👓 Catch the LIVE Stream! | WordCamp Orange County 2019
Live video from The Beach and The Deep
👓 The Highly Team is Joining Twitter | highly.co | Medium
The Highly Team is Joining Twitter
Just in case, it’s probably a good idea to try to export and back up your data.
👓 White House celebrates first lady's birthday with bizarre photo | NBC News
Mrs. Trump turned 49 on Friday.
👓 Julia Angwin Is Out as Editor of New Tech Watchdog Site The Markup | New York Times
Ms. Angwin was one of three founders of The Markup, which is dedicated to investigating technology and its effects on society. Five journalists resigned.
👓 Support for Julia Angwin grows as funders investigate the “coup” at The Markup” | Nieman Lab
After her ouster as editor-in-chief, multiple funders say they are taking steps to "reassess" their support.
👓 Game of Phones: Podcasts and podcast apps are now treating each other like wary rivals, protecting their turf | Nieman Lab
Luminary gets pushback from Spotify and The New York Times: temporary glitch or the real start of the platform wars? Plus: Gimlet gets a union, a new podcast incubator, and Mueller Mueller everywhere.
👓 L’affaire Luminary continues with more podcasts dropping out and allegations of technical bad behavior | Nieman Lab
The paid podcast app may well be doing nothing wrong in its hosting of podcasts from the open web — but nonetheless, what they've been best at thus far is generating pushback.
👓 Luminary says it’s not copying your podcast files and it’s no longer screwing with your stats — but it is killing all your show-notes links on purpose | Nieman Lab
Those links to your donate page or Patreon signup are "security concerns."
👓 The Demands of Positive Celebrity Coverage | Jezebel
It’s been a rough week to be a star, and a rough week to be someone who listens to what stars have to say. At least, that’s what social media tells me. Some of the most famous people making music today—Ariana Grande, Cardi B, and Justin Bieber (as well as Lizzo, a darling of critics and her fans but not quite of superstar status... yet?)—have shared their thoughts online regarding the state of media in 2019. None of it advocates for a free press, much less even contends with that notion. The gist is that journalism should be service journalism that primarily serves the powerful and their images.
👓 Connectivism and scale | blog.edtechie.net
In his recent post criticising the Creative Commons Certificate, which I won’t comment on, Stephen Downes repeats a claim he has made before about the scalability of the connectivist approach, stating: One of the major objectives of our original MOOCs was to enable MOOC participants to c...
👓 Chris Aldrich mentioned it was his #indieweb anniversary today, which made me wonder when I first encountered indieweb. Turns out it was six years ago! | gRegorLove.com
gRegor Morrill (gregorlove.com)Chris Aldrich mentioned it was his #indieweb anniversary today, which made me wonder when I first encountered indieweb. Turns out it was six years ago!
👓 Another exciting online learning experience – the Twitter Conference | linkinglearning.com.au
Experimenting with different online learning opportunities which take advantage of the affordances of openly networked online social technologies underpins my approach to learning and teaching. Jus…