The men behind the camera are ready to step into the spotlight.
Good for them for helping out their wives this way. Interestingly not odd that they move into the sub-influencers game themselves though.
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President Trump said Thursday that he will “maybe definitely” declare a national emergency to free up funds for his long-promised wall at the southern border. One reason for the president’s hesitation might be that he is awaiting word from the people who would be asked to give such a declaration the green light: Justice Department lawyers at the Office of Legal Counsel, or OLC, where I worked from August 2016 until I quit in mid-November.
👓 $30 plug-and-play kit converts a Bird scooter into a “personal scooter” | Boing Boing
👓 Bird Scooter tried to censor my Boing Boing post with a legal threat that’s so stupid, it’s a whole new kind of wrong | Boing Boing
👓 2019.01: Href.Cool Updates | Kicks Condor
Okay, so I’ve added outgoing Webmentions to Href.cool. This means that sites will be notified if they are linked in any of my category.
Incidentally, the directory itself has also has Webmentions. So, if you have an Indieweb blog and you want to recommend a link to the directory: make a post containing the link you want to submit and a link to the category page you think it belongs on and I will get the message. I may also choose to list submitted links at the bottom of the page. Or, yeah, you tell me if this is useful to you.
👓 The Rise and Demise of RSS | Motherboard
Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas.
👓 Passive Tracking > Active Tracking | Eddie Hinkle
Eddie Hinkle (eddiehinkle.com)In the most recent episode of Two Dads Talking, Jonathan and I talk about tracking our information and whether we are using active or passive applications. Jonathan is using mostly passive applications that collect his behavior and translate that into posts on his website. I, on the other hand, spen...
👓 WordPress is like a free buffet | Joseph Dickson
WordPress is a like a free buffet. You can do a lot very cheaply; but if you don’t know what you’re doing it will cost you later.
— Joseph Dickson
👓 My current workflow for dealing with dvds | Henrik Carlsson
As previously stated, when it comes to watching movies I don’t like dvds or blurays. However I also don’t like piracy so back in the dvd days I bought a lot of dvds and these days ̵…
👓 More thoughts about Micro.blog as an indie social network | Paul Jacobson
Brad Enslen is doing some great work over at Micro.blog, spreading the word about this innovative service. He published a post titled “The Case for Moving Your Social Network to Micro.blog…
👓 “Create the kind of communities and ideas you want people to talk about” | Paul Jacobson
I’ve had an idea in my task list for a week or so now, and I just haven’t made the time to write about it, at least not as I originally intended when I read the post that inspired it. J…
Some ideas worth chewing on here. Paul almost uses the phrase “thought spaces” here and though he doesn’t, he’s certainly dancing around it.
👓 I’ve always known that my family was Irish descended in some way. | Charlie Owen
Charlie Owen (sonniesedge.co.uk)I've always known that my family was Irish descended in some way. We're too prone to doughiness and large multi-generational households to be anything but that. What with Brexit looking to be an absolute shitshow and me wanting to, you know, STILL BE EUROPEAN, I thought it'd be worth looking into my...
👓 Tools to start a podcast | Indie Digital Media
If you’re thinking of creating a podcast, or want to know how to improve your existing podcast, you’ll need to spend a bit of money and a chunk of time setting yourself up for success. The good news: there’s no shortage of free or inexpensive professional-level tools and services to…
The piece missing from this is the getting over the inertia even if you’ve got all the tools. Sometimes thinking about a microcast of 10 minutes or less can help one get over this mental speed bump.
👓 Bullet Journal: One Book to Rule Them All | Jamie Todd Rubin
I recently began using a Bullet Journal. Longtime readers who recall my going paperless days might find this odd. My going paperless experiment was just that–an experiment to see how far I could go without paper. Eventually, I decided that there were good reasons (for me) to continue to use paper....
👓 One Tool To Rule Them All | Oki Doki Digital
Getting out of productivity limbo with Notion.