Errin Haines Whack (Nieman Lab)"We are not in the hint business; we are here to report facts, including the difficult facts of racism."
👓 Say it with me: Racism | Nieman Journalism Lab
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Errin Haines Whack (Nieman Lab)👓 Newsonomics: 18 lessons for the news business from 2018 | Nieman Journalism Lab
Ken Doctor (Nieman Lab)From paywalls to politics, pipes companies to public radio, the Post to The Post, podcasting to partnerships, and the press to a president.
A nice little recap of some of the big changes in US journalism this year and some ideas about where it may be going.
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The lesson, again, and again: Unique voices supported by subscribers point a way forward. ❧
December 21, 2018 at 06:47PM
Check out the Times or the Post these days, though, and it is a different world. Stories of greatest import can sometimes stay atop phone screens for much of the day. ❧
And isn’t this how it happened in print, which just didn’t change because of the medium instead of editorial?
December 21, 2018 at 06:52PM
👓 The Rise of Knowledge Economics | Scientific American
César A. Hidalgo (Scientific American Blog Network)What is knowledge? How does it disseminate? And what’s its value?
A great article outlining several related papers in Dr. Hidalgo’s opus. I like how he pulls together prior research as well as his own in an accessible way.
👓 Literally Just A Big List Of Facebook’s 2018 Scandals | BuzzFeed News
Mark Zuckerberg began the year promising that he would fix Facebook. He didn’t, and 2018 has only presented more problems.
Just the other day I was saying how hard it was keeping up with the litany of problems Facebook has had this year. BuzzFeed News has remedied the issue for me by literally making a really long list of all of them in a coherent timeline.
👓 What Is A WordPress Hook? | Caldera Forms
You can’t spend too long working in WordPress without finding out that you need a “hook.” Hooks are WordPress’ system for you to do something at a specific event. Hooks can be used to either change the value of something at some point — we call this a filter — or to do something, which i...
👓 What To Look For In A Web Host | Caldera Forms
In this post, I’m going to talk about how to choose a web host. If I had to guess, I would say that about 30% of our Caldera Forms support tickets are about a conflict with a hosting provider. We know better than most that choosing the right web hosting provider is essential to any site builder’...
👓 Don’t Waste Your Time On These 4 Common Security Tips | Caldera Forms
Following last week’s post about WordPress security, in this post, I’ll start with advice I see commonly in other places that I don’t see much point in doing. Most of this advice is nearly harmless to slightly beneficial if it’s done. But the reason I don’t recommend it is that its benefit...
👓 Basic Things You Need to Know to Become a WordPress Developer | Caldera Forms
There are a lot of reasons to love WordPress, but one of the reasons I keep WordPressing is the supportive community. While I have no formal training as a web developer, I don’t like describing myself as “self-taught.” I didn’t figure this out on my own, I was taught by a supportive communit...
👓 For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain | Smithsonian Magazine
A beloved Robert Frost poem is among the many creations that are (finally) losing their protections in 2019
👓 The perils of mixing open source and money | DHH
David Heinemeier Hansson (dhh.dk)Fundraising for open source has become trivial through venues like Kickstarter, so it's natural more projects are asking for money. "Imagine all the good I could do if I was able to work on this full time for the benefit of the community". Yes, let's imagine indeed.
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You’re solving the problems for you and your mates, likely in the simplest way you could, so you can get back to whatever you originally intended to do before starting to shave the yak.
But once there is money involved, work will expand to fill the amount raised (to paraphrase Parkinson’s law).
External, expected rewards diminish the intrinsic motivation of the fundraising open-source contributor. It risks transporting a community of peers into a transactional terminal. And that buyer-seller frame detracts from the magic that is peer-collaborators.
Take Ruby on Rails. More than 3,000 people have committed man-decades, maybe even man-centuries, of work for free. Buying all that effort at market rates would have been hundreds of millions of dollars. Who would have been able to afford funding that?
👓 National Poetry Writing Month #NaPoWriMo: 3 Days In! | Silence and Voice
Jeffrey Keefer (Silence and Voice)I have been successful with writing poems for the first two days of National Poetry Writing Month, the annual celebration of poetry writing that coincides with National Poetry Month each April. Since I have been writing poetry as one of my 2018 goals (the goal is specifically to publish a poem this year), I thought this was a wonderful opportunity to generate some first drafts of poems in a communal setting as others who are engaging in the same process are sharing their progress via the #NaPoWriMo tag .
I’ve been considering that I ought to write more poetry. Perhaps NaPoWriMo would be the way to go?
👓 How to Delete Facebook | The New York Times
Lost faith in Facebook after data leakages, breaches and too much noise? Here’s a guide to breaking up with the social network and its photo-sharing app for good.
You know things are bad for Facebook when the New York Times is publishing tutorial how-to’s about how to delete Facebook.
👓 Facebook’s Privacy Message Undermined by the Times—Again | WIRED
Facebook has spent much of 2018 apologizing to people. A recent New York Times investigation calls all those apologies into question.
Facebook has said “I’m sorry” and leaked data so many times now that I’m honestly not able to keep up with all the major instances. I keep having to look at date/timestamps in articles to see if it’s a new instance or they’re talking about one of the dozens of prior instances. Facebook really needs to redefine it’s business if they’re going to survive.
👓 Become A Facebook-Free Business | Signal v. Noise
DHH (Signal v. Noise)If Facebook’s endless privacy scandals have shown one thing, it’s that the company has far too much data on its users, and that they can’t be trusted not to sell, barter, or abuse that data whether for profit, growth, or negligence.
While individuals have long been rallying around #DeleteFacebook, there hasn’t been a comparable campaign for business. Enter: The Facebook-Free Business.
Just like when companies began putting Facebook and Twitter bugs on their websites and in advertising, you know it’s getting serious in the other direction when businesses are talking about leaving Facebook.
I wish BandCamp a lot of luck in also leaving Medium to get rid of that last Facebook like bug.
There is a lot to like about companies behaving ethically like this. I’m much more likely to trust a company (especially those talking about my data and privacy) if they can behave this way.
👓 Facebook Stock (FB) Plunges After DC Sues Over Privacy Breach | Bloomberg
Facebook Inc. tumbled on Wednesday, with shares extending their decline throughout the session after the social-media company was sued by the District of Columbia over a privacy breach.