monitoring when journalists request permission to broadcast videos from twitter
And of course, just as I’m checking this tool out, I encounter a shooting in New Jersey that makes one of the bigger stories of the day.
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Andy Baio (Waxy.org)If you’ve ever looked at the replies on any newsworthy amateur video posted to Twitter, you’ll see an inevitable chorus of news organizations and broadcast journalists in the replies, usually asking two questions:
- Did you shoot this video?
- Can we use it on all our platforms, affiliates, etc with credit?
That gave me an idea, which I posted to Twitter.
I bet you could make a great breaking news site that just monitors this Twitter search of media properties asking for permission to broadcast user videos, and scoops them by automatically posting the most active videos. https://t.co/xP3160ezHQ
— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) August 1, 2019Within two days, a talented developer named Corey Johnson made it real by launching Bbbreaking News.
How frequently should you post to keep pace with the next decade?
h0p3 (at philosopher.life) who I just like to converse with and keep up with throughout my week ❧
I’m curious what modality you use to converse? Am I missing some fun bit of something about that wiki?
–annotated on December 10, 2019 at 01:52PM
I like the thrust of this piece a lot Kicks. It’s also somewhat related to a passing thought I had the other day which I need to do some more thinking/writing on soon: On the caustic focus on temporality in social media.
Laura Kalbag (24ways.org)Is it just me or does nobody have their own website anymore? OK, some people do. But a lot of these sites are outdated, or just a list of links to profiles on big tech platforms. Despite being people who build websites, who love to share on the web, we don’t share much on our own sites. Of course ...
Some great ethical reasons for why go IndieWeb. I like that she’s got some concrete examples here and then goes into how she’s done what she has for herself.
fluffy (beesbuzz.biz)IndieWeb! What if we suddenly... swap sites?
Great idea, isn’t it?
Vika (fireburn.ru)IndieWeb! What if we suddenly... swap sites? No, not actual sites with actual content, but site runtimes. Set up a subdomain on our server and then set up someone else's software on that subdomain and try to blog on it for a certain timeframe, like a week maybe? This will allow us to test each other...
This is an awesome idea. I feel kind of like I do this on an annual basis for David and Mathias’ work on WordPress. Perhaps it might be fun to do a week or so worth of testing out something like Malcolm’s https://i.haza.website/?
This post is probably going to be a little bit scattered, because I’m still reeling from the overwhelming, unexpected response to the last post.
The people who I envisioned myself writing for—they got what I was saying and where I was focused. The very early responses to the post were about what I expected. But then it took off, and a lot of people came into it without the context I assumed the audience would have.❧
Definitely a good example of context collapse here.
–December 10, 2019 at 12:20PM
I didn’t go looking for grief this afternoon, but it found me anyway, and I have designers and programmers to thank for it.
Media Redefined: interest mixes for curious minds. media + tech + pop
I’ve always wished that they had an RSS feed for this site. Fortunately Kevin Smokler has put one together that should do the trick: https://feedity.com/redef-com/UlNbUFpTVg.rss
John Evdemon (Loosely Coupled Thinking)I love Known - it's an elegant blogging tool that supports most Indieweb standards right out of the box. The biggest challenge I've had with Known is getting it upgraded. I host my blog with Reclaim - a great little hosting service with excellent customer support.
Some useful advice for updating Known when I get around to it. I feel like the technical hurdle for maintaining it has increased with the addition of needing bits like Composer.
The Dominic system is a mnemonic system used to remember sequences of digits similar to the mnemonic major system. It was invented and used in competition by eight-time World Memory Champion Dominic O'Brien.
Japanese wordplay relies on the nuances of the Japanese language and Japanese script for humorous effect. Japanese double entendres have a rich history in Japanese entertainment, because of the way that Japanese words can be read to have several different meanings and pronunciations (homographs). Also, several different spellings for any pronunciation and wildly differing meanings (homophones). Often replacing one spelling with another (homonyms) can give a new meaning to phrases.
I hardly know where to begin. This newsletter’s already a day late — partially because of travel, partially because I have no idea how to address some of the things that have occurred in and around the ed-tech industry (and ed-tech punditry) this week.
There are always lessons to be learned.
I’m committed to playing the long game of learning, rather than the short game of schooling. ❧
–December 10, 2019 at 06:55AM
Jim Luke (EconProph)Herein, against my better judgement, I wade into the Great Instructure social media wars of 2019. Last week, Instructure Inc., the publicly traded (NYSE: INST) company announced it had agreed to go private and sell itself to private equity firm Thoma Bravo. For people who teach in higher education this is big news. Instructure, is the current name for the company founded in 2008 that created and sells the Canvas LMS. Canvas in the last decade has toppled the previous king-of-the-LMS’s, Blackboard. Canvas is now widely reported to have largest market share of higher ed LMS market at least in North America. Moodle, the open source system, appears to dominate outside North America.
Capitalists and market-thinkers inevitably seek to enclose the commons, privatizing benefits and externalizing costs onto society.❧
It’s nice to see this reminder every now and then.
–highlighted December 09, 2019 at 09:00PM
Some pragmatic and solid analysis here. Better than some of the FUD I’ve seen bandied about.