Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com)Building personal learning environments across the different time horizons of information consumption
👓 Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens | Tom Critchlow
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Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com)👓 Building a digital garden | Tom Critchlow
Tom Crichtlow (tomcritchlow.com)How I built myself a simple wiki using folders and files and published via Jekyll
Hat tip: Greg McVerry
👓 The Soothing Promise of Our Own Artisanal Internet | Wired
As unease with Big Tech grows, some prescribe a slower, less viral online existence. "Eat independent sites, mostly not Facebook."
Includes a reference analogizing the internet to food, which I’ve done before myself.
hat tip: Kevin Marks in IndieWeb chat
👓 My One Word for 2019 is Flânerie | Read Write Respond
Aaron Davis (Read Write Respond)This is both a reflection on my one word for 2018 – Intent – and my new word for 2019 – Flânerie.
How can you not love this word and the ideas behind it? Reminds me I ought to do more walking this year since I live in such a walk-able city.
👓 Police sources: New evidence suggests Jussie Smollett orchestrated attack | CNN
Two law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation tell CNN that Chicago Police believe the actor Jussie Smollett paid two men to orchestrate an assault on him that he reported late last month.
This doesn’t sound like it’s going to end well….
I suspect that if this turns out like it seems to be turning lately and the entire motive was greed based, it will turn out that he’ll have somehow found out that others at his level on the show are making a lot more than he comparatively. This might then make sense within only the Hollywood community, but it’s definitively not going to play well in middle America where his likely $60K per episode (or ~$1.3M/year) is going to seem out sized for a relatively new star. Even worse, isn’t the show just about to it’s 4th year and over 100 episodes at which point everyone renegotiates their contracts to get 2-5x their prior salaries if they’ve got even half-decent agents?
👓 Differential privacy, an easy case | accuracyandprivacy.substack.com
By law, the Census Bureau is required to keep our responses to its questionnaires confidential. And so, over decades, it has applied several “disclosure avoidance” techniques when it publishes data — these have been meticulously catalogued by Laura McKenna
👓 My Goal Since the Beginning Was to Individualize the Victims | WordPress.com
Photo colorist Marina Amaral leads the digital Faces of Auschwitz project.
👓 Czesława Kwoka | Faces of Auschwitz
Czesława Kwoka was born on August 15, 1928 in Wólka Złojecka, a small village in the Polish Zamość region that fell victim to Hitler’s Lebensraum (living space) – the ideological policy of territorial expansion into Eastern Europe. Czesława and her mother, Katarzyna, were Roman Catholics: a group reviled by the Nazi Party. The Nazis refused... Read More
👓 Homemade Vanilla Extract: A DIY Gift Idea | With The Grains
Homemade Vanilla Extract is simple to make & quite stunning once bottled. Add it to your homemade gifts this holiday, especially for the baker in your life.
I’ve seen more efficient and quicker ways of doing this… Alton Brown comes to mind in particular. This is certainly pretty however.
👓 “K” Theme Update 24-Jan-2019 | Mr.Kapowski
Chris McLeod (Mr.Kapowski)I’ve been chipping away at several things over the last two weeks, mostly focussing on markup, presentation, and theme file organisation. I want to get these finalised before I look at theme customisation options. If you’ve visited the home page, you might have noticed the display of certain pos...
New IndieWeb friendly themes for WordPress are always a welcome thing. I hope he’s open-sourcing it for others to tinker with as well.
👓 Progressive enhancement. | adactio.com
Progressive enhancement. Marking up (and styling) an interactive timeline that looks good in a modern browser and still works in the first ever web browser.
👓 WordPress: Sparkplug | Dented Reality
I’ve been working on a project where we were co-ordinating our efforts via a group blog, which in this case had a Prologue theme installed. I wanted to be able to see how active certain secti…
A cool looking sparklines project. Sadly the UI is looking a bit shabby and it hasn’t been updated in ages. Beau has a lot of other interesting looking projects laying around as well… I’ll have to come back and revisit some.
👓 Matt Kuchar stiffing his caddie was horrible. His response to the backlash is worse. | SBNation.com
Kuchar doesn’t understand why everyone is so mad about a Tour pro with almost $50 million in earnings giving his caddie in Mexico an obscenely low percentage of a winner’s check.
👓 @mrkndvs Making an #IndieWeb Blogger Theme | Greg McVerry
Greg McVerry (drmacsspot.blogspot.com)I spent yesterday working on a version of a blogger theme compatible with IndieWeb tools like webmentions. You can see an example here: https://drmacsspot.blogspot.com/ Then using IFTT I syndicate my notes to Twitter and the tweets get displayed back on my blog as comments. Here is an example: https...
👓 D’Nealian | Wikipedia
D'Nealian, sometimes misspelled Denealian, is a style of writing and teaching cursive and manuscript ("print" and "block") handwriting for English. It derived from the Palmer Method and was designed to ease the learning of manuscript and cursive handwriting. D'Nealian was developed by Donald Thurber while teaching in a primary school, and was first introduced in 1978. The name of the script comes from Thurber's first name contracted with his middle name ("Neal"). The system was designed as a method to alleviate the problems with teaching children the traditional script method and the subsequent difficulty transitioning to cursive writing. D'Nealian manuscript form has many similarities to the cursive version. In theory, it is easier for children to learn and acquire basic handwriting skills using this method than traditional cursive writing.