Nick Lewis (Nick Lewis)I have recently implemented #webmentions on this site and they seem to be working rather well but what are they exactly? The splendid @alistapart explains a little bit more.
https://alistapart.com/article/webmentions-enabling-better-communication-on-the-internet/
Opening keynote for dLRN 2015. Delivered October 16th @ Stanford. Actual keynote may have gone on significant tangents… 1 | a year in the garden A week or so ago, I was reading about the Oreg…
Social Media Bad, Hot Chips GoodPicks of the Week:
- Data and Society's Joan Donovan tells us how to stop online hate.
- Leo explains why Google's location history tracking policy is a big deal.
- Google is working on its own Amazon Show competitor.
- NYU is giving Facebook 10,000 anonymized MRI scans to help train its AI systems.
- At the Hot Chips conference, Google's Pixel Visual Core and AMD's chip roadmap are all the rage.
- Facebook wants to rate how trustworthy you are to fight fake news
- Changelog: new Google Fit and some good news
- Everything you ever wanted to know about the Pixel 3 XL - in Russian!
- Google's Shortwave could change podcasting forever.
- Joan's Stuff: Antisocial Media by Siva Vaidhanathan and Custodians of the Internet by Tarleton Gillespie
- Stacey's Thing: Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel
- Leo's Pick: Apple History on Triangulation
After the Civil War, a surprising coalition tried to remake the United States into a real multiracial democracy for the first time. Reconstruction, as the effort was called, brought dramatic change to America. For a while.
Reported and produced by John Biewen, with series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. The series script editor is Loretta Williams. Interviews with Victoria Smalls, Brent Morris, Eric Foner, Kidada Williams, Bobby Donaldson, and Edward Baptist.
Music by Algiers, John Erik Kaada, Eric Neveux, and Lucas Biewen. Music consulting and production help from Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.
Photo: Historian Bobby Donaldson of the University of South Carolina, at the South Carolina State House, Columbia, SC. Photo by John Biewen.
To those who have been–and here I wish I had an appropriately charged word or name for the horrors and atrocities America has inflicted:
#acknowledgement
“@ChrisAldrich Also I have just realized the Post Kind menu on the post doesn´t appear on Gutenberg...”
Serena (supine-owl.com)Liked How to Add to Blogging Conversations... And Eliminate the Echo Chamber (ProBlogger)
Just going through my old bookmarks and found this article. Some interesting ideas to keep in mind. Although I wonder where this current post would sit in his 11 ideas? This post doesn’t add to the conversation, but it just introduces the conversation to a wider audience…
Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar. With Randall Park, Constance Wu, Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler. After coming out of the closet to Honey and Jessica, Nicole struggles with telling Marvin, fearful that her father will be disappointed in her. Meanwhile, Louis wants to manage the Cattleman's Ranch softball team on his own, so Jessica decides to coach the rival team from The Denim Turtle to prove that she is the superior manager. Chaos is sure to ensue when everyone gathers for the big game at the Greater Orlando Bar and Restaurant tournament.
When Bruno and Boots learn that Macdonald Hall is about to lose some of its best students to its arch-rival, York Academy, because the Hall doesn't have a swimming pool, they go on the warpath, determined to save the school. But their fundraising schemes turn to hilarious chaos!
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Somehow classic that after going through all the trouble to raise money for a swimming pool that one of our heroes can’t even swim.
Read for pure entertainment.
