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👓 Do Scholastic Book Fairs Live Up to the Nostalgia? | The Atlantic
Years later, many adults still pine for the days their school libraries, auditoriums, and gyms transformed into pop-up bookstores.
👓 E/N | sawv
The website's content means everything to the publisher, but it could mean nothing to the rest of the world. Back in the 1990s and maybe even in the early aughts, some websites were called E/N sites, which meant Everything and Nothing. E/N may have predated the term "weblog", which also began in the...
An interesting differentiation of type for a personal website. I like the ideas here and how they might contrast to both blogging and commonplace books.
👓 Warbler Description | sawv
I like community websites where people gather for online discussions. That's why I launched my message board Toledo Talk in January 2003, and it continues today. Warbler is a message board where all thread starter posts and comments are Webmentions. A Webmention is a cross-site communication idea, e...
Some interesting thoughts here on community applications and the idea of discovery from an IndieWeb perspective. Kicks Condor and Brad Enslen may appreciate having yet another person who is actively thinking about and working on these particular problems.
👓 IndieWeb Support | sawv
In the summer of 2013, I learned about the IndieWeb, ironically, via a comment, posted at Scripting.com, Dave Winer's website. Over the past 25 years, Dave has created, collaborated on, and evangelized about multiple open web technologies, but he's a bit prickly about some IndieWeb concepts, especia...
👓 Using the Last Seen Function in Simple Location | David Shanske
David Shanske (david.shanske.com)One of the features in Simple Location that doesn’t get much notice is the Last Seen functionality. Simple Location adds a section to your WordPress user profile called Last Reported Location. It allows you to set the last reported location for a given user. It reports latitude, longitude, altit...
The Simple Location plugin for WordPress has some awesome power built into it. David does a great job here of explaining some of it’s additional behind-the-scenes power.
👓 What We Wished For | Smashing Magazine
Mat Marquis (Smashing Magazine)An old cliché says that “may you get everything you wish for” makes for a particularly insidious curse. With Edge soon making the switch to Chrome’s rendering engine — well, for better or worse, a bitter wish is coming true.
👓 A College Student Was Told To Remove A "Fuck Nazis" Sign Because It Wasn't "Inclusive" | BuzzFeed News
"This email tells me the university cares more about the feelings of Nazis than the safety of their students."
👓 Bottleneck at Printers Has Derailed Some Holiday Book Sales | New York Times
A backlog at the printing presses, plus a surging demand for popular hardcover titles, has hurt publishers at peak sales season, with popular titles out of stock in some stores.
👓 Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora | Waxy.org
Yesterday, Quora announced that 100 million user accounts were compromised, including private activity like downvotes and direct messages, by a “malicious third party.” Data breaches are a frustrating part of the lifecycle of every online service — as they grow in popularity, they become a big...
Amen
👓 Hypothesis Launches App to Bring Annotation to Learning Management Systems | Hypothes.is
We are excited to announce the official launch of the Hypothesis LMS app. Thanks to the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard, Hypothesis now integrates with all major LTI-compliant Learning Management Systems, including Instructure Canvas, Blackboard Learn, D2L Brightspace, Moodle, and Sakai. We will be testing other platforms, including MOOC-providers like Coursera and edX in the coming weeks and months.
With this release, Hypothesis is better prepared to support the strong adoption we already see in teaching and learning. Students and teachers are a majority of the nearly 200 thousand annotators who have created over 4.3 million annotations using Hypothesis. The new LMS integration means teachers can bring collaborative annotation in their classrooms seamlessly as a part of their normal workflow.
👓 I Lived Like Reese Witherspoon for a Week and All I Got Was This Ham | Vulture
A New York Jewess goes south for the holidays.
A great send up of Reece Witherspoon’s book. Such great satire, I wish Rachel was writing on more than just culture and film.
👓 The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Actions and Filters | Code Envato Tuts+
When it comes to professional WordPress development, it's imperative that developers understand both actions and filters - that is, it's important to understand WordPress hooks. Simply put, hooks...
A clean and simple tutorial…
👓 The Racist Politics of the English Language | Boston Review
How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”
Yes, we need to be more careful with our words and move back to more specific language.
👓 Kardashian Index | The Informational Turn
The Kardashian Index is a measure of the discrepancy between an academic's social media profile and publication record based on the direct comparison of numbers of citations and Twitter followers.
The Kardashian Index (K-index) can be calculated as follows:
K - index = F(a) / F(c)
F(a) is the actual number of Twitter followers of academic X. F(c) is the number academic X should have given their citations C; given a trend identified in the original paper, it is calculated as:
F = 43.3C0.32
The author of the index says that "a high K-index is a warning to the community that researcher X may have built their public profile on shaky foundations, while a very low K-index suggests that a scientist is being undervalued. ... those people whose K-index is greater than 5 can be considered 'Science Kardashians'.