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Upon the efficient consumption and summarizing of news from around the world.

Facebook is informative in the same way that thumb sucking is nourishing. ❧

Annotated on February 09, 2020 at 10:28AM

Upon the efficient consumption and summarizing of news from around the world.
Remember? from when we though the internet would provide us timely, pertinent information from around the world?
How do we find internet information in a timely fashion?
I have been told to do this through Twitter or Facebook, but, seriously… no. Those are systems designed to waste time with stupid distractions in order to benefit someone else. Facebook is informative in the same way that thumb sucking is nourishing. Telling me to use someone’s social website to gain information is like telling me to play poker machines to fix my financial troubles. Stop that. ❧

Annotated on February 09, 2020 at 10:40AM

👓 UK journalists on Twitter: how they all follow each other | The Guardian

Read UK journalists on Twitter: how they all follow each other by Simon Rogers (the Guardian)
How much do journalists just follow other journalists on Twitter? This visualisation suggests one answer

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Liked Facebook by Matthias PfefferleMatthias Pfefferle (notiz.Blog)
In den letzten 4…5 Jahren hab ich immer wieder mit dem Gedanken gespielt meinen facebook Account zu löschen. Mein Account hatte wirklich wenig persönliches und ich habe ihn fast ausschließlich dazu benutzt, meine Blogposts zu teilen. Der einzig plausible Grund der mich noch daraun gehindert hat...
Congratulations Mathias!

🎧 This Week in Google 449 Grackles, Nuthatches, and Swifts, Oh My! | TWiT.TV

Listened to This Week in Google 449 Grackles, Nuthatches, and Swifts, Oh My! | TWiT.TV by Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham from TWiT.tv

Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Google News Initiative will fight fake journalism. Uber self-driving car not at fault for killing pedestrian. Congress passes SESTSA/FOSTA. The city that banned bitcoin mining.

  • Jeff's Number: Amazon is #2
  • Stacey's Thing: Alexa Kids Court
  • Leo's Tool: Samsung My BP Lab

🎧 The Daily: The Democrats and Israel | New York Times

Listened to The Daily: The Democrats and Israel from New York Times

The Democratic Party has a long history of staunchly supporting Israel, but some new lawmakers are raising questions about the future of this stance.

👓 “The Monuments Must Go”: An Open Letter From the Great-Great-Grandsons of Stonewall Jackson | Slate

Read The Monuments Must Go (Slate)
An open letter from the great-great-grandsons of Stonewall Jackson.

🎧 This Week in Google #396: Mechanical Turking

Listened to This Week in Google #396: Mechanical Turking from twig.tv, March 15, 2017
Guests: Danny Sullivan

South By Southwest news from Austin local Stacey Higginbotham. 100 announcements from Google Cloud Next. Can Google fix its "one true answer" problem? U.S. charges 4 Russians with Yahoo Hack. The best iPhone case ever.

Danny's Article: Your guide to using Google Assistant and the Google search app on Android & iPhone
Stacey's Thing: Lutron LZL-4B-WH-L01 Connected Bulb Remote


https://youtu.be/mKO53moUPSU

The Google search issue that’s discussed reminds me of the problems in World War I in which larger guns and more automatic guns rose to prominence and gave one side an edge over the other. The solution sadly becomes arming the other side similarly, but who will do that and how is that going to occur?

After the end, I’m more tempted than usual to go out and do some home automation…

Read Thread by @ehanford: "Thread: There was a session today at , the annual conference of @ncte, called "Misreading the Science of Reading." I want to share so […]" #NCTE19 #ELAchat #ilachat by Emily HanfordEmily Hanford (threadreaderapp.com)
Thread: There was a session today at #​NCTE19, the annual conference of @ncte, called "Misreading the Science of Reading." I want to share some thoughts, and some reading material, to add to the conversation. #​elachat #​ilachat 1/x I've been an education reporter for a decade+. A few yrs ago, I knew nothing abt the "science of reading." But in the past 3 yrs, I've read thousands of pages of books, articles, research papers. 2/x I've interviewed hundreds of researchers, teachers, school leaders, tutors, parents, students and struggling readers. I've visited 9 states. And I've been shocked to learn that: 3/x
A tweetstorm that could be a meta-paper on the topic of reading and literacy.

hat tip:

📖 Read pages 29-46 of Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary

📖 Read pages 29-46, Chapter 2: Show and Tell, of Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary (Scholastic Book Services, , ISBN: 0-590-04493-1)

A doll named Chevrolet is just awesome. Even better that her hair is in horrific shape because “It’s sort of green because I gave her a blue rinse.” Then it was washed with “Lots of things,” […] “Soap, shampoo, detergent, bubble bath. I tried Dutch Cleanser once, but it didn’t work.”